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According to her doctors, problems did not arise until the 14th day after surgery, when a battery of tests revealed that the infant's body was beginning to reject the alien heart. Over the next five days, doctors increased her dosages of the antirejection drugs, supplemented her weakening heart with digitalis, eased the strain on her breathing with a respirator and resumed intravenous feeding. By Wednesday of last week Surgeon David Hinshaw told a packed auditorium of reporters at Loma Linda that "she is in the process of turning around. Signs of rejection are reversing right down the line. Baby...
...Madison, the end result is the same: he is an alien in his homeland. "It's hard to take sometimes because we're the ones that protect the game and keep this resource for them," he says. "Hunting season is what keeps Meeker alive. I'd like to run for city council but I wouldn't get ten votes." A regulation that would limit the number of bulls killed during the season for a few years would be met with great hostility, though it might improve hunting in the long...
...Reagan visit, his first since January, 1983, is seen as a sign that he is confident enough of victory to venture into what once was alien territory...
Palm trees were drooping in the heat of the midday sun and alligators snoozing after a breakfast of fish, when the alien bird swooped down from the sky. Roseate spoonbills and wild pigs scattered as it alighted with a gentle whoosh! on the 15,000-ft. ribbon of concrete beside the Florida marsh. On two previous missions, Captain Robert Crippen had been scheduled to land the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center, the launch site, and each time bad weather had diverted the ship to Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. But this time, a looming...
Foreign Affairs, Lurie's seventh book of fiction, explores the vocabularies of love and friendship. It is a tale of two citizens (U.S.) played out in an alien though strangely familiar land (U.K.). Virginia Miner, "54 years old, small, plain, and unmarried - the sort of person that no one ever notices," has returned to London to research children's rhymes. Fred Turner, 28 and gorgeous, is in town to polish off a book on 18th century Poet-Playwright John...