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...their detritus remains on full display to tourists, a still life. “Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names, and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina,” wrote Associated Press correspondent Brian Schwaner in an article last August that applies just as well today. “Beyond the happy mayhem of the French Quarter, entire neighborhoods are in ruins and the business district sags from the shattered economy. Thousands of people are homeless and squatting in vacant and storm-damaged properties, some just...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Postcard from New Orleans | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

This week, in the Annals of Surgery, Drs. Isidor Schwaner Ravdin and Francis Clark Wood told how they saved the life of their young colleague with one of the boldest operations in modern medicine-removal of an embolus from a main artery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bold Operation | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...Also in Philadelphia last week met six groups of anesthetists. Their gravest concern was a new anesthetic called divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...standing jumps.- Scratch man, Schwaner, N. Y. A. C.; K. K. Kubli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B. A. A. Handicaps. | 2/9/1894 | See Source »

...lowering Luther Cary's record of 21 4-5 sec. The records for long distance running, hurdling and walking, remain as before, but the jumping records have experienced quite a change. The standing high-jump record of 5 feet 1 1-2 inches held by Cook was beaten by Schwaner, who cleared the bar at 5 feet 3 1-4 inches. The record of 6 feet 4 inches for the running high jump, held so long by Page, was at last by 1-4 inch at Travers Island by Sweeney. The high vault record was also changed, Rodenbough surpassing Baxter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Athletics in '92. | 1/12/1893 | See Source »

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