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Forty visiting surgeons and doctors then watched Dr. Lawler transplant the healthy kidney into Mrs. Tucker's body, skillfully fastening vein, artery and ureter. When the clamps were removed, 45 minutes after the donor had died, the kidney in Mrs. Tucker's body took on a healthy pink color...
...pride was hurt, but Golfis lived in peace with his neighbor until last month, when a vein of water was discovered under their land. In Greece's dry, sun-parched hills, where water is as precious as life, it was a great event; Psofios announced he would sink a well. Old Golfis, who was too poor to drill a well of his own, feared that all the water under his land would be drained off by his neighbor's well, that the meager springs on his own plot would dry up. For days, he brooded. Then he decided...
Adams was 23 by now, a stolid, pleasant fellow with, as one friend observed, "a little capillary vein of-shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...
There are other advantages, said Drs. Gardner and Hale: the patient's own blood is better for him than that of any donor, and blood pumped back into the body toward the heart through an artery, instead of a vein, puts no extra burden on the heart. Their reservoir setup, they said, "may be likened to an accessory heart...
...Harries-and, along with her, Author Sinclair's happy new vein-is best summed up in one of Pam's nicest remarks: "She writes letters to the newspapers and to important persons and tells them what they are doing that is wrong...