Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riga's Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares a strip of skin loose from a patient's abdomen, leaving both ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent...
...concertgoers called her, knew little or nothing about music-except that she liked it and wanted everybody else to. She started promoting concerts as a lark in 1918, carried on for the rest of her life and grew famous, both for her ability to squeeze money from the flintiest skin and for such delightful intermission announcements as "We will now hear an operetta by Gilbert and Solomon...
...hand he has, and 2) it once, three years ago, introduced Clay to canvas. The acquaintanceship lasted only 5 sec., after which Cassius performed a surgical operation on the tissue surrounding Cooper's left eye. Ever since, Henry has been soaking his head in brine to toughen his skin. The success of the treatment was a matter of sufficient debate to lure 46,000 Britons to Arsenal Football Club Stadium last week and to persuade millions of Americans to tune in on a satellite-relay telecast. Could young Doctor Clay carve another notch in 'Enery...
Seldom articulate and usually all but invisible, America's poor are the losers in what Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff calls "the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." In a society and an age that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker...
...could handle administrative problems, take histories, and even, like Navy corpsmen, give shots and help in operating rooms. Computers are being used more widely to help in diagnosis, and Philco recently developed a "medi-chair" that can read a patient's pulse, check his respiration rate and skin response, and produce an electrocardiogram 20 seconds after he sits down in it. These and other processing techniques can leave the doctor more time to offer what no computer can-judgment and sympathy. As Montefiore's Dr. Cherkasky says: "The patient still needs the nurturing qualities that help fight disease...