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...most serious, third-degree burns, involving loss of all the layers, skin will not regenerate. To prevent loss of body heat and fluids until the patient is ready for grafts, the wound needs temporary biological dressings; overhead heat shields are also used. Doctors apply either pigskin (which closely resembles human skin) or skin from cadavers. Artificial skins have not yet proved successful, and doctors are only beginning to take matching skin from siblings and parents. But M.I.T.'s Ioannis V. Yannas, together with Shriners' Dr. John F. Burke, may soon try a promising material made of polysaccharides...
...fact coming out of the prolonged business "pause" of late summer and fall. After flattening out disappointingly in October and November, in December new-car sales jumped 16% above those of a year earlier. That surge made 1976 the domestic industry's best year since 1973: U.S. automakers wound up selling 8.6 million cars, or 22% more than in 1975. What is more, most automen believe that this year will bring even better results. They predict that sales of American cars will come close to the 1973 record of 9.7 million and, since prices are much higher, the industry...
More than 10,000 readers answered the 78 multiple-choice questions, and Nursing says that well over 200 were so "wound up" by the issues raised that they sent along letters detailing their complaints. Jean MacVicar, director of hospital nursing services of the National League for Nursing, notes that the strong reaction is "a sad commentary, but maybe we had to hit bottom before we decided to do something." Anne Zimmerman, president of the American Nurses' Association, concedes that people may find the report "unsettling," but is pleased nurses are finally speaking out. Says she: "The nurse is, after...
...angered and disgusted, not to mention sickened and saddened by my fellow newsmen," confessed Jack Tarver, publisher of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, in an indignant editorial last week. "It would serve us right if the judge were to tell us where to stick the attorney generalship and we wound up with another John Mitchell or Richard Kleindienst...
Still, the sense of urgency is gone, and the President spends much of his time pondering why Jimmy Carter, and not he, will be sworn into office on Jan. 20. With visitors he can talk and joke about his defeat and the future without much melancholy. And yet the wound is there. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey chatted recently with the President and took away the impression that Ford is not sure why his job, which he came to love more than any he had ever held, is being taken away. For fear of hurting someone, he refused...