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Using special equipment flown in from the U.S., the doctors injected GM-CSF into each patient's vena cava, the central vein that leads to the heart. Within 48 to 72 hours, the white blood cell count increased in five of the six patients, but Leide died before the treatment could be evaluated. Within a week four of the six patients had died, overwhelmed by pneumonia, blood poisoning and hemorrhaging. But the other two seem to be recovering. "I can't be certain that they would have died if they had not got the treatment," Gale says. "But they...
...this vein, Shattuck and Spence seek to remove a large stumbling block to a closer relationship with the government: restrictions on information. While more federal funds may boost campus-based research, White House information policies produce an opposite effect which may far outweigh the good of more money...
Unlike many Harvard bands, Men of Clay plays mostly originals. Their music has an ethereal sound in the Sting-Police vein. Or, as one listener at Memorial Hall last week described their sound, "[It's] like U2 without Bono...
That said, there is little doubt that Hite has tapped into a deep vein of female dissatisfaction with love relationships. "These are not happy days between the genders," observes Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University. "All the rules have been thrown out, and everybody has to invent them as they go along. That's tough." Because of their traditional role as arbiters of relationships, many women see themselves as having to bear the brunt of that burden. "This nation is filled with burned-out women," says Joyce Maynard, 33, the New Hampshire author (Domestic Affairs) and mother of three...
Those who feel that writing should be a matter of opening a vein and bleeding have never entirely approved of Kurt Vonnegut, whose murmurous style seems as easily achieved as respiration. If the man simply breathes his stuff out, can he be producing anything substantial? He can, of course. Vonnegut's rueful, wondering satire in Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and half a dozen other books says "Goodbye, better luck next time" to human society in the late 20th century. That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing...