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...best experiences of his life, Rhew says, likewise took place far away from the bustle of cars and subways. The summer before his sophomore year in high school, Rhew made a seven-hour climb atop a mountain in Yellowstone Park, where he camped alone for a night...
Mothers routinely make sacrifices for their children, but what happened last week was unprecedented. In an extraordinary seven-hour operation, doctors at Stanford University Medical Center transferred part of a mother's lung to her dying 12-year-old daughter. The girl, born prematurely, had long suffered from severe scarring of the lung. She had perhaps a year to live. Dr. Vaughn Starnes, who performed the operation, says the mother, 46, should not notice the loss of one lobe of a lung. The lobe is expected to expand to fill the space in the daughter's chest created...
That spurred the alliance's 16 foreign ministers through a seven-hour marathon meeting that ended with a compromise on the hotly divisive subject of negotiations to lower the number of short-range nuclear forces (SNF) in Europe. West Germany won agreement that bargaining would indeed begin, but not until conventional-arms reductions were under way, which would be 1992 at the earliest. Britain and the U.S. held fast for agreement that such talks would aim at only a partial reduction of U.S. and Soviet warheads and not, as Bonn wanted, at their complete elimination...
Many popular contenders failed to get past the electoral-district gatherings. Vitali Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...
Opponents of the imperial system announced dozens of demonstrations and rallies, however, including a seven-hour rock concert sponsored by the United Church of Christ, Japan's largest Protestant denomination...