Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
Until last week, the only question most people asked about home video games was how fast they would spread. It seemed as if every child in America, and many adults, was interested in buying plastic game cartridges and playing them on consoles (which typically cost $200 or more) hooked up to a television...
...long as anyone can remember, the city of Cambridge this month assembled a quaint wooden Nativity scene on the Brattle Square traffic island. Though most unassuming, the tiny plastic animals, pilgrim kings and baby Jesus violate the same constitutional principle raised when Grendel's had its day before the high court...
...still faces a high risk of blood clotting, pneumonia and especially infection, which could develop around the tubes that enter his chest; they carry the pulses of air that drive the heart. But the artificial organ does have a key advantage over one from a human donor: since the plastic device contains no tissue, Clark's body is less likely to reject...
...expect the surgery to succeed. By week's end, however, Dr. Peterson reported that Clark "had gone from a man who was blue from not enough oxygen before surgery to being pink." He was also talking, moving his arms and legs and, thanks to a stalwart plastic heart, beginning to enjoy a life on borrowed time...