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...recirculated, doctors faced another complication: massive bleeding in each infant's brain. Overall, the surgery consumed 60 pints of blood products, dozens of times the babies' normal volume. Worried about rapid swelling of the brain tissue, the team decided to wait for a later date to install titanium plates custom designed to help close the babies' skulls. In addition, there was not enough scalp to cover both infants' heads; Benjamin's was therefore temporarily closed with surgical mesh...
...Mount Vernon, one like the White House and one like Monticello," says Randolph Williams, developer of more than 20 luxury-home communities in the Washington suburbs. Inside, the new mansions often combine traditional elegance and modern glitz. Among the common features are mahogany trim, granite counter tops, marble floors, custom-made Palladian windows and spectacularly high ceilings...
...marble increased by 32% last year, to nearly $1 billion. Old World Moulding & Finishing, a Farmingdale, N.Y., manufacturer of some 500 different kinds of moldings, reports that its 1986 sales topped $1 million, an increase of nearly 90% in one year. Marvin Windows, a Warroad, Minn., firm that makes custom-made windows and patio doors for the expensive-home market, has had record sales every year since 1982. The company has been swamped with orders for windows in the shapes of circles, ovals, stars, footballs and hearts...
...toward the contentiousness of majority rule, without most of the rights that go with it. In 1924 Congress granted citizenship and the vote to all Indians. But it was not until 1968 that Congress extended guarantees of free speech and due process to Indians on reservations, ensuring that tribal custom did not preclude constitutional rights. The Reagan Administration has been dealing with the tribes on a government-to-gover nment basis in a reaffirmation of Indian sovereignty. Despite recent moves toward greater economic development and self-government, in many respects the Indians remain an occupied nation. The suffering has merely...
...which to hear oral arguments and render written decisions. The Justices begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers any knocks on the door or hands...