Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peace, oceans of blood have been drawn from healthy volunteer donors and transfused into the veins of surgery patients and victims of a wide variety of diseases and injuries. The substance that keeps the stored blood from clotting and makes it usable in transfusions is sodium citrate. The man who perfected the citration process back in 1915 is still active, though probably not one in a hundred of the millions who owe their lives to his transfusion method could name him. Unaccountably, he has never received a Nobel Prize...
...reason why Harvard could not make a similar gesture to youth groups of--if not the state--the metropolitan area. Our seating capacity is much less than Yale's, of course, but this need only mean that the project be less ambitious in scope than Yale's state-wide invitation. Administrative costs could be absorbed by the slight individual charge...
...only do these individuals feel stagnated, but the desire of unions and large business organizations to form nation-wide insurance plans, and the vague but omnipresent threat of compulsory national health insurance has resulted in a desire for a larger and more effective Blue Cross. Two events in the last few weeks have outlined the crisis in the organization's structure and purposes...
...compulsory federal plan still seems a long way off, but it would be a shame to allow lack of cohesion to destroy the local administrative machinery of Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and their counterparts, if a national superstructure could be set up to deal with the problems of nation-wide coverage. Such supplementary programs as Connecticut's C.M.S. program to cover non-hospital medical expenses for families earning less than $7000 could be expanded similarly. One can only regret that voluntary insurance plans have taken so long to find out that Americans will take any steps necessary to avoid paying...
...island is a bleak South Atlantic rock ten miles long and seven miles wide. Eight months of the year it rains, three months the sun blazes down, one month it is bearable. Of 600 officers and men of H.M.S. Conqueror, stationed at the island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon...