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...year ago, he owned a guitar store in Greenwich Village, the only distinction of which was that a certain British rock star used to shop there. Because said star (whose last name happens to be Knopfler) runs through rhythm guitarists like Ex-lax through Ronald Reagan's digestive tract, Sonni joined up and became a juke-box hero and heir apparent and all that good stuff...
...addition, a previously vacant tract of land near the Kennedy School just outside the Square's center has been converted into University Green and Place, a condominium/office project. The condos are selling for between $150,000 and $750,000 each, but just in case you were thinking of skipping out of the dorm, most of them have been occupied since June...
...condition, known as acute tubular necrosis, which generally started within four days of surgery and lasted up to two weeks. For reasons that remain obscure, all four experienced impairment of their immune systems in the weeks following surgery, and all suffered from some form of infection, ranging from urinary-tract problems to pneumonia. Experience with the four patients has also shown that the artificial heart batters the red blood cells, causing a form of anemia. As a result, said DeVries, "if you have an artificial heart, you can expect to have blood transfusions once or twice a month...
...while the life of its President-elect has hung in the balance. Only hours before Neves was to be sworn in on March 15 as Brazil's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule, he had to undergo emergency surgery for diverticulitis, an inflammation of the intestinal tract. The operation appeared to be successful, but Neves soon had to go under the knife again, this time to remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when another problem arose: internal hemorrhaging. He was rushed from the capital, Brasilia...
...time he entered New York University in 1965, the family had moved to Orlando, Fla., where his father further prospered developing medium-priced tract housing. It was to the family's spacious home overlooking a lake that Goetz returned after graduating from N.Y.U. with a B.S. degree in electrical and nuclear engineering. In order to avoid military duty in Viet Nam, he feigned mental illness. Goetz joined his father's development company and entered into a brief, unhappy marriage...