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...Teresa's liver proved more compatible. In a 14-hour procedure in November 1989, surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center removed the left lobe of Teresa's liver, trimmed it down, then transplanted it into Alyssa. During the next two weeks, Alyssa required three more operations to stanch bleeding...
...rebuild the facility. Most of the oil would dissipate anyway, they claimed, and floating booms placed near Jubail could capture the residue before the desalinization plant was seriously threatened. By Saturday morning, the options ranged from an air strike on Al- Ahmadi to a special-operations action designed to stanch the spill, but no decision had been reached...
...result, American soldiers have proved remarkably adaptable, quickly solving many of the unique problems posed by desert warfare. Helicopter-maintenance crews, for example, have learned to prevent the dustlike Saudi sands from damaging their choppers by cleaning filters more often and applying a new epoxy to rotor blades to stanch erosion...
...despite increasing vigilance on its borders, has the U.S. been able to stanch the flow of drug imports. Federal drug agents are making impressive cases, last year seizing almost 70 tons of cocaine and more than $1 billion worth of cash and assets -- roughly double the Drug Enforcement Administration's 1990 budget of $549 million. A relentless Colombian government campaign has disrupted the Medellin cocaine cartel's refining and transportation operations...
Four years after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, the human flow it was intended to stanch is on the rise. This year an estimated 1 million foreigners will illegally enter the U.S., most of them across the Mexican border. The protesters, drawn by anger tinged with xenophobia, speak darkly of the immigrants. They reject the conventional wisdom that the aliens are benign job seekers who do work that Americans disdain and that generally benefits the U.S. economy. "We have nothing against Mexicans," says John Machan, a local courier. "Many of them are hard workers, and there should...