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...city-wide scale, Sert's plans for the new Boston expressway system comprise a radial or "walled" system, dividing the city into sectors. In the future he pictures the various functional units of cities divided on the lines of these transportation sectors...
...where they got them, Dr. Hanson is convinced that, with rare exceptions, the upper arm is not the proper place for adults' injections. The muscle bed there is not big enough, he says, and a slight slip of the needle is enough to drive it into the radial nerve, wh re it may cause paralysis...
They were right. In the A.M.A. Journal, the research trio reported that the tri-radial crosshatches of congenital heart cases were etched nearer the center of their palms twice as often as those who had developed heart disease later. The pattern also tended to be more disorganized in the hands of congenital heart patients-a possible result of the same mysterious mechanisms that cause abnormalities to develop in the fetus...
There are two kinds of energy: "tangential" energy on the outside of entities, and "radial" energy, which operates within. Everything, says Teilhard, has this "within" and "without," and it is the radial energy within that is the evolutionary force, driving toward greater and greater complexity. This drive produced the molecule, the cell, organic life, up through the ooze...
...soon in convulsions and a raging fever, and threatened with death from brain damage. Rushed to Bellevue Hospital, he was stretched out beside the artificial kidney, which was primed with two pints of blood containing heparin to prevent clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes with the core of the artificial kidney. Key part of this core: cellophane tubing of ordinary sausage-casing size. From the core, other tubes led back to veins in the patient's elbow...