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...University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, who performs an average of six bypasses a week: "Bypass grafting can make a person absolutely well who has been totally disabled. But you don't want to use such a powerful weapon until you have to. You want to keep your powder...
...technique, developed by a team headed by Surgeon Judah Folkman of Children's Hospital Medical Center and described in the Lancet, the bone is made into strips, blocks, chips or powder and soaked in hydrochloric acid to remove all minerals. It is then dried, sterilized and stored. When needed, it is mixed with a saline solution. Says Plastic Surgeon John B. Mulliken, also of Children's Hospital: "The powder, which then has a pasty consistency, is used to caulk around defects, to fill in holes, irregularities, and is shoved into places hard to get at. The chips, though...
...killed some men in their homes, arrested and tortured others and bayonetted many. They also decapitated the wounded. In the middle of the plaza they put dynamite in the mouth of one miner and blew him to pieces . . . They whipped children with cables and made them eat gun powder. They made young people lie down on broken glass and forced us to walk over them; afterwards the soldiers marched over them. At dawn, on Tuesday, Agust 5, they loaded the dead and wounded into three army trucks headed for La Paz . . . About 900 people disappeared, the dead, wounded and prisoners...
...driveway. Deaver, who had crouched beside the President's car until he saw Reagan was in it, ran for the Secret Service control vehicle. "Oh, my God, it's happening!" he thought. The shots had been so close to him that he could "feel the concussion and smell the powder." In the car, he shouted, "Let's get out of here!" He grabbed Presidential Assistant David Fischer and, referring to Reagan, asked, "My God, Dave, is he all right...
...UNDRO inspectors toured the affected areas in January. They were impressed with China's own emergency efforts; only 5,000 people have died so far. But they estimated that China would need 1.5 million tons of rice, wheat and other grains, along with medicine, clothing, blankets, seed, milk powder and additional necessities...