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...Screening is most effective for women in their mid to late thirties, most of whom have survived the peak fatality years for AIDS and have an otherwise normal life expectancy,” Goldie says...
...doctors, nurses, aides and technicians hunched over the lifeless boy, nurse Dawn Colbert inserted an IV into his arm and began a rapid infusion of O-negative blood, the universal-donor type. Within 15 minutes, Colbert pumped nearly 1.5 liters of warmed blood into Jessie, about half the normal volume for an 80-lb. boy. Jessie began to bleed. But his heart still wasn't beating on its own. Twice the team stopped CPR, waiting for Jessie's heart to pump on its own. No pulse. Nurse Sandi Miller, who was keeping watch for the arrival of the arm, prayed...
...bone, three nerves, one artery, three veins and three muscle groups had to be reattached if Jessie was to recover with some semblance of normal use of his arm. While De Campos prepared the stump, Rogers marked the corresponding veins, arteries and nerves with sutures on the severed arm. First, De Campos shortened the arm even more, taking away about an inch of bone so that the stump would hold a plate to keep the limb in place. She clamped the bones together--two screws in the stump, two at the overlap and two more...
...three days it took for talks between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to collapse in Agra last week, between 70 and 80 people lost their lives?around one death for every hour Musharraf was on Indian soil, twice the normal rate. No one in Kashmir thinks that's a coincidence. New Delhi was expected to step up its maneuvers to back its demand in Agra that Pakistan stop supporting the Kashmiri insurgents. The rebels themselves wanted to signal that their struggle against India continued. Both messages were bound to be written in blood...
...PROPERTY WE TRUST Real estate investment trusts generate money from property holdings. REITs argue they're normal operating companies unrepresented in the S&P 500. Special tax laws categorize REITs as nonequity assets, but growth in the '90s--from a $9 billion market cap to $139 billion--may have changed that. S&P will soon decide the trusts' status. Separately, three investment firms last week tweaked their REIT accounting, saying they'd forecast results per share, as with equities...