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...easily be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. It causes moist human tissues like lung interiors to swell and the eyes to develop cataracts. Victims can suffocate because MIC causes the lungs to fill with fluid, and they can suffer liver damage and burning of the nasal passages, throat and trachea...
...metal-and-plastic heart whirred and clicked in an eerie, mechanical rhythm as Dr. William DeVries, 40, removed the tracheal tube from his patient's throat. For the first time since his artificial heart had been implanted about 36 hours earlier, William Schroeder, 52, could breathe on his own and speak. "Can I get you something to drink?" the doctor asked. Replied Schroeder: "I'd like a beer." It was, DeVries admitted afterward, one of the high points of the tension-filled hours following his second successful attempt to implant an artificial heart...
...when he failed to show up for last year's ceremony. This year it was Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov who was missing. Questioned by a Western reporter, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin allowed that Ustinov, who has not been seen in public since September, was suffering from a "sore throat." U.S. analysts did not believe Ustinov was dying, but, as one Washington Kremlinologist put it, "colds in the U.S.S.R. tend to be fatal...
...Shula never tried to be Brown, Ewbank, Blanton Collier or any other coach of his experience. "The players can sense a copy," he thinks, and this has also been his view of quarterbacking. "I didn't try to jam Johnny Unitas' style down Bob Griese's throat. I never expected David Woodley to be Griese...
...course, there is pathos in Stubbs' hunting scenes. His portrait of the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong...