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...Scalpel, Please...
...Hospital in Baltimore, where about 50 sex-change operations have been performed since 1966, doctors announced they were abandoning the surgery for all but hermaphrodites (those born with male and female organs). Reason: a new study finds no difference in long-term adjustment between transsexuals who go under the scalpel and those...
...crowd for tea in their crown-topped pavilion. At last, guests begin to wander about the 39 sylvan acres in the heart of London and marvel at the elegance of the splendidly carpeted "cloakroom" facilities. By the curving lake they search for the celebrated flamingos, and in the scalpel-trimmed rose garden compare the Queen's blooms with their own in Surrey...
Judson does not slight the Watson-Crick episode. But he also provides a broader landscape, carefully filling in details of the so-called phage group, a small band of mostly ex-physicists who decided to use bacteria-eating viruses as a kind of genetic scalpel; the virtually forgotten work of Rockefeller Institute's Oswald Avery; the painstaking efforts of scientists to explain exactly how DNA and its kin, RNA (for ribonucleic acid), performed their magic; and finally the patient toil of Britain's Max Perutz, who unraveled the structure and precise workings of the blood's oxygen...
Muhammad finally got through to one of Bakhtiar's aides. Casualties were still rolling through the emergency-room door as he banged down the telephone. "They said only that these people were trying to take army headquarters. With what? Their bare hands?" He sighed as he selected a scalpel and went back to work. "They are pushing the people to take arms. Next I shall be operating on soldiers killed or wounded by the friends of the people who died under my care today...