Word: basin
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...electric pump sends the fluid through the kidneys at a natural pulse rate and under normal blood pressures. Once through, the fluid drops from the veins and ureter into a catch basin for recirculation. Along the way, it is reoxygenated and purified, and chilled to reduce still further the likelihood of organ deterioration. When the machine is trundled from the room in which the kidney was removed to the recipient's operating theater, the pump works on a battery without interruption. Dr. Belzer has done four transplants with machine-preserved kidneys, one of which was on the circuit...
...series of check-dams, such as the dam in Waltham, holds back the water and diverts most of it to the Neponset Tidal Basin," he said...
...Pakistan, the Indus Basin project represents something more than national prestige. Until British India was partitioned into two nations, the area of West Pakistan served bv the dams got its water from rivers whose headwaters are now in unfriendly India. India will be free to cut off Pakistan's flow of water from the east in 1970 and use it for Indian purposes. Developing a whole new water system along the Indus, Pakistan must therefore have much of it ready by 1970, and is gladly paying bonuses to contractors who complete their portions ahead of schedule...
...Cascades, and at Bear Valley, Calif., a remote area in the northern Sierras that boasts the record U.S. annual snowfall-73 ft. in the winter of 1906-07. At Alta, Utah, a 5,100-ft.-long lift has been added to open up the powder-rich Albion Basin, until now accessible only by climbing on skis. Vail, Colo., has developed a whole new mountain called Golden Peak...
...Mangla to dedicate its new clay and sandstone dam-part of a $2 billion complex that when completed will be the world's largest irrigation network, bringing water to 30 million acres of land and serving the 50 million people who live in the vast Indus River basin...