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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's grandiose scheme to transplant most of South Africa's 11 million natives into nine backcountry, all-black Bantustans was supposed to put an end to the country's racial unrest. Instead, it has only increased the dangerous tension between black and white...
...fact, the Masters hope the Radcliffe House system will evolve into something quite different from the Harvard plan. "I didn't come to transplant Harvard," Martin said, and Thimann reasonably observes that "girls are different than boys," so "why imitate...
...Smith's study was undertaken to determine whether certain pathological patterns observed microscopically in kidney transplants could be explained on the basis of abnormal blood flow. The individual joining together of all venous and arterial vessels in the course of a kidney transplant, he noted, placed a number of vessels is close proximity and increased the likelihood of stretching and kinking which, he said "may dispose to thrombosis...
...Zurich two months ago by chartered plane. Their Unterwasser home has an elevation of 3,000 ft., only about one-fourth that of Tibet, but Switzerland lies 15° north of their Asian homeland and the climatic conditions are much the same. Explains Lama Wangyal about the extraordinary transplant: "The mountains make us happy. We do not have forests, and our houses are built of stone, not wood. But this is also a country of snow, cheese and milk...
Obsessed with statistics and blueprints, city planners and rebuilders forget to find out what the people whom they transplant by the blockful really want. Author Jacobs quotes a tenant from a Manhattan housing project set in the customary grassed areas dear to all rebuilders: "They threw our homes down and pushed us here and pushed our friends somewhere else. We don't have a place to get a cup of coffee or a paper even, or borrow 50? . . . But the big men come and look at that grass and say, 'Isn't that wonderful! Now the poor...