Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arts education. Further, the approval of courses on such varied and narrow topics as "Monuments of Japan." "The Novel in East Asia." "The Great Rebellion: Britain 1640-1660," "The Civilization of South American Indians" "Empire of the Mongols," "The Development of the String Quartet" and others in the same vein does not provide students with a common basis for intellectual discourse or an understanding of the influences on their lives in 20th-century America. While these courses may cover important subjects and while they may be enlightening, are they--to us Dean Rosovsky's language-"fundamental to undergraduate education...
...tough-guy slang like "fry." But last month outside the prison at Huntsville, Texas, the sentiment was the same. As Charlie Brooks waited to be injected, a crowd of 300 gathered to celebrate. Some of the pro-execution revelers, mostly college students, carried placards; KILL 'EM IN VEIN, said one. "Most of the people I know are for capital punishment," declared Paula Huffman, 21, a Sam Houston State University senior at the deathwatch. "And so am I. Definitely." Nevertheless, when the moment arrived, just after midnight, she and the rest of her shivering, smiling chums suddenly turned quiet...
...overwhelming majority of the Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday to override Gov.Edward J.King's vein of a bill requiring the divestment of all state pension funds from farms doing business in South Africa. The Senate approval the override Monday and the measure becomes...
Charlie Brooks walked into the execution chamber, stretched out on the hospital gurney, and a catheter needle was inserted into a vein in each of his arms. Into the left (on which Brooks had a tattoo reading I WAS BORN TO DIE) would come the drugs; the right catheter was a standby. Extending from each needle was a length of clear plastic tubing that ran through a plywood slat to the executioner's room next door, and there into a standard hospital bag of saline solution...
...drug involved is 5-azacytidine, which until now has been used only to treat cancer. In the most fully described case so far, a 42-year-old man with severe thalassemia, who needed a blood transfusion every two weeks, received a continuous infusion of the drug through a vein in his arm for seven days. At the end of the week, the concentration of healthy red blood cells in his blood had increased by 25%. This beneficial effect persisted for about a month...