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Dorothy Loudon, the maid in Nothing On, has lost 25 Ibs., suffered two broken toes and two bruised ribs, and has a trachea infection from the strain on her voice. "I'm so black and blue I haven't worn a dress for weeks," she says...
...time-and lucky. His horses and uniforms were riddled with bullets at Braddock's defeat in the French and Indian War. He was untouched. But even his luck ran out finally. He died at 67 of a throat inflammation. A young physician in attendance wanted to open the trachea but was overruled by his seniors, still fearful of the new technique. A sturdy figure like Washington might have been around many more years with only a little bit of today's medical knowledge...
...that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks. But as his oldest brother, Gary, 27, recalls it, "Robbie never accepted .that...
...enabling experts to lift fingerprints from difficult surfaces like cloth and even the human body. Kansas City's Howell believes that the coming years will see a great increase in the use of weapon marks. In one stabbing murder, researchers compared a section of the victim's trachea with cuts made in a bar of soap by the suspect's knife. Under a microscope, the marks matched, and the defendant pleaded guilty...
...patient was Mary Gohlke, 45, a newspaper executive from Mesa, Ariz. She had been suffering from pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which high blood pressure in the vessels of the lungs impairs breathing and eventually damages the heart. Dr. Bruce Reitz and his Stanford team severed the aorta and trachea and cut through the heart's right atrium to remove the heart and lungs. "The whole thing comes out as a package," explains Reitz. Then they replaced it with healthy organs from a 15-year-old boy killed in a car accident...