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Because Ben A. had about one-fortieth the normal kidney function, or roughly half what is needed to maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered...
...lighter vein, Bunche observed that "we don't have much humor at the U.N.... but we've been having a lot more since Adlai Stevenson arrived." He recalled the Stevenson's joke, originally from a Dutch diplomat, on one of the marks of progress--"now the people in New Guinea are eating only fishermen on Fridays...
BOTOLPH GROUP: Sculpture and wallhangings in a religious vein by Clark and Leah Fitz-Gerald. May 8 through June...
...varsity finished the week in an Anglo-American vein, defeating a combined team of Oxford-Cambridge players on the Business School flats. After one period of play before a large, shivering crowd, the score was tied at two goals apices. Spruance scored both goals for the Crimson...
Cohen has often had to defend his pictures against attacks that claim they are immoral a bad influence, or just plain trash. "Everyone gets into the act," he said. "My pictures are horror, but in a supernatural vein. No adolescent can leave the theatre and turn into a Konga or a Teenage Werewolf...