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Known as a radical cystectomy, it involved removal not only of the bladder (the body's reservoir for urine) but of other parts associated with the urinary tract as well: the prostate gland, the lymph nodes-which are being further examined to see if the cancer has spread to them-and fatty tissue around the bladder, and part of the urethra (the tube leading from the bladder through the penis). Such extensive surgery, Whitmore later explained, is routine in radical cystectomies (which his team performs at a rate of 80 to 100 a year), and does not mean that...
...began 14 years ago when A.E.P.'s subsidiary, Appalachian Power Co., obtained a license from the Federal Power Commission to build two dams at Independence and Galax, Va., for a "pumped-storage" project in which water run through turbines in the upper dam would be retained in the reservoir formed by the lower dam and then pumped back. The objective of the so-called Blue Ridge Project was to increase Appalachian's already enormous generating capacity by a significant 10%, providing more peak-load power for customers in Ohio...
...only pleasant thing to surface from Britain's drought: in a Welsh valley that had been turned into a reservoir years ago, the stone cottage where Percy Bysshe Shelley romped with his young bride Harriet Westbrook and wrote his first great poetry was exposed to view again as the waters dropped...
...hotels at which the conventiongoers had stayed revealed no outbreak of the mysterious illness among employees who had come in contact with the Legionnaires. The investigators could find no evidence that any of the victims had been exposed to pigs, which have been implicated as the animal reservoir for the swine-flu virus. Nor could the disease detectives explain another apparent contradiction: why some people developed the disease, while others, who ate the same meals, drank the same drinks or shared their rooms during the convention, did not. "This is an amazing disease," said Dr. Robert Gens, director of Pennsylvania...
...city's Common Council to approve his plan for a water system. The council issued notes for ?2,600 to get the project started. Almost half went to buy nearly two acres of high land on Great George Street, where Colles decided to build a roofed wooden reservoir of 10 by 60 by 140 feet holding 628,000 gallons. The rest was invested in the key part of Colics' scheme: a steam engine. Although there are a number of these devices in Europe, only one was ever shipped to America, to pump out a copper mine...