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...installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow and is so effective that one 17-year-old patient went back to competitive wrestling eight weeks after treatment...
...simple social facts like this Stott might have provided a more serious understanding of the social context of documentary expression. If one sets out to chronicle and make plain the subtle interplay between a culture and a society, one takes on the additional burden of developing a theoretical framework, a structure of ideas and insights, that is adequate...
...unique part of Britannica 3 (estimated price: $550) is the Propaedia, a one-volume "outline of the whole of human knowledge" that serves as a framework and guide for the material in the other 29 volumes. The concept of the Propaedia stems from the Greek words that constitute the term encyclopaedia: the whole circle (or complete system) of learning. Adler describes the content of the Propaedia as a "circle of learning" that is divided, pie-like, into ten major segments: matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind...
Jobert's interpretation of this accord-that the U.S. was committed to give first priority to consultation with Moscow in any crisis-triggered his (and Pompidou's) decision to launch a public discussion of a common European defense outside the framework of NATO. "NATO is not European. It is European and American and Canadian-in short, Atlantic." Instead, Jobert wants European defense organized within the Western European Union, an organization he describes as "more flexible and exclusively European...
...time and ignorance. The senior class entered the University at the same time that the CRR was born, but the class of '74 missed the '69 strike that created the demand for a disciplinary body like the CRR. Other classes operate with even less of a political framework...