Word: wakefields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of the California housewife has become increasingly common as hospitals in growing numbers turn to outpatient (involving no overnight stay) surgery. That procedure, designed to cope with rising costs and the great demand for beds, was pioneered by the 258-bed Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in suburban Wakefield, Mass., which started its surgical "day care" program in 1969. Since then, outpatient surgery has become available in a growing number of hospitals around the country. In the greater Detroit area, for example, at least eight hospitals provide the service; eight more are planning to initiate it. Says Dr. Paul Lahti...
...oldest find was made by Norman Wakefield, 53, who, like Jensen, is also a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), rangy digger. On holidays from his post as head of the biology department at the teachers' college of Melbourne's Monash University, he likes nothing better than to clamber over the rocks of Australia's bush country. Last September, while exploring a rock-rimmed stream in eastern Victoria, he discovered, preserved in the rock, several small imprints of an ancient four-legged creature with webbed five-toed hind feet and possibly three-toed front feet. Geological dating showed...
...Wakefield's colleagues at first showed disbelief, since the earliest fossil evidence of limbed vertebrates in the Southern Hemisphere dates back only 230 million years. But the skeptics were convinced when Wakefield later found in the same area plant fossils that clearly dated back to the same period, often called the Age of Fishes, during which the first primitive amphibians edged their way toward land...
...significance of Wakefield's discovery is that it may help solve a major evolutionary riddle: How did the webbed feet of the amphibians evolve from the paddle-shaped fins of their fish ancestors? Possibly his creature may be kin to a little (3-ft.-long) lizard-like amphibian called Ichthyostega, whose remains have been found in Greenland. The outward-pointing feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield...
...opera got little help from Director Langton, who sent the chorus sashaying about the stage with hands on hips, or swaying with hands linked like oldtime Follies girls. Such artists as Mezzos Elaine Bonazzi and Frederica von Stade, Baritone Theodor Uppman and Tenor John Wakefield seemed wasted in their brief roles. Choreographer José Limon certainly knows all there is to know about Spanish tradition and dancing. But even his fertility rite dance in Act III succeeded in looking barren. Musically, Yerma is compelling. But as a dramatic experience, in Santa Fe, Yerma remained yermo...