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...driving from a restaurant toward his home in Dumont, N.J. The next morning Labollita found himself in a hospital in nearby Englewood. He had fallen asleep at the wheel, flipped his car and, in the resulting crash, knocked out a 4-in. segment of his upper arm bone, the humerus. The lower part of his arm dangled precariously from torn muscle and tendons. Labollita, now 27, recalls, "When I came to, they had already performed emergency surgery to remove the remaining pieces of bone." There was no hope of mending the shattered segment...
Suzanne Sommers of Clinton, N.J., was diapering her eight-month-old daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg. Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition...
...President responsibly stand by his pledge to raise taxes only as a last resort. Maybe this year he'll be able to reach his reduction targets by paring welfare programs down to the bone, but what will he shave when nothing's left? Reagan says he wants to reduce the deficit by $85 billion in 1987 and $110 billion in 1988, but gives no indication of where the extra savings is going to come from...
...pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have cost him to run the system if he had survived). The prices for other organs are comparable. A liver transplant costs $135,000, and a year of rehabilitation treatment can double that. Bone-marrow transplants...
...martyred priest's body reported that he had been savagely beaten. A rope had been tied around his neck, wrists and ankles so that he would strangle himself if he struggled to get free. Three fingers of Popieluszko's left hand were sliced through to the bone, and there were deep gouges on his arms. His lungs contained enough water to indicate that he was still breathing, even if unconscious, when he was tossed, bound hand and foot, into a reservoir...