Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exercise the Right. Within two days, the sturdy young patient was taking regular meals. He now feeds himself with his left hand. After five days, his temperature was normal, and the wound showed no sign of infection. But this meant no respite. Last week the plastic surgeons took Ev back to the operating room, pared big patches of half-thickness skin from his right thigh, and grafted the patches onto the raw areas near his armpit...
Only after all this, which took four hours, did the plastic surgeons get around to what they usually do first: guard against gangrene by clearing both sides of the wound site of all tissue, mostly muscle, that is crushed or deprived of its blood supply. In this case, they delayed because it was more urgent to restore the circulation promptly. At last, they stitched together four major muscles and as much skin as was left around the fracture. It was not enough, but the rest of that job had to wait...
...Hong Kong, even if a man sleeps on the street-and 15,000 do each night- there is work enough to buy at least some food. The unskilled refugees find jobs paying $1 a day as ditchdiggers, coolies, factory sweepers, stevedores. Children perch on street corners putting together plastic flowers for the U.S. market. Young mothers, with babies strapped to their backs, haul water up the mountainside...
Ugly Familiarity. The prosecution offered only three witnesses, but they were enough to spread the record before the court. During the time that Salan was head of the S.A.O., his gunmen in France and Algeria exploded 7,000 plastic bombs, made 2,000 assassination attempts, caused 415 deaths and wounded 1,145 persons...
...toward maladjustment only those children characterized by specific traits which enhance their vulnerability. Some such traits are essentially constitutional and therefore rigid. For these, it is possible to reduce the hazards of delinquency by altering environmental factors. Other traits are essentially due to sociocultural conditioning and are therefore more plastic and modifiable...