Word: risks
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Although the transplanting of a human heart is the most dramatic feat of today's surgery, it is not the most difficult. From the technical standpoint, implantation of a new lung is more delicate and complex. And it carries an even greater risk of failure because the basic function of the lung is to inhale air from outside the body, thus exposing it to infection by airborne microbes. Of ten human-lung transplants previously reported, most have failed within a few days, and all in less than a month...
...expenditure of as much as 100,000 lbs. of fuel merely to settle a spacecraft from 80 ft. to 100 ft. tall gently on the lunar surface. The JPL idea, while permitting the design of a smaller landing craft, would have required several separate launches and had the added risk that astronauts might be stranded on the moon if they landed too far from their previously launched supplies...
...rules that determine who gets what in the U.S. economy are at once distressingly inequitable and remarkably logical. Tradition, profit, risk and decision making all play a part. Regional pay differences exist, but are narrowing as executive mobility increases. The Fantus Co., a site-seeking firm for industry, reckons that for young executives living costs in New York run 12% higher than in Chicago and 40% higher than in Dallas. Although some companies give Manhattan executives premium pay, it does not always make up for the cost-of-living differential...
...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Ellen Violett's original drama, "The Experiment," is about a brilliant young scientist and his girl who risk their individuality by moving from the academic to the industrial world...
...loss of a hand or a foot. At 60 below, steel will break more easily and rubber is as brittle as glass. Standard lubricating oils solidify into a buttery mess, and gasoline must be liberally dosed with alcohol to keep motors running. Unless engines are kept .turning over, they risk a "cold soaking" that seizes every moving part in icy immobility...