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Earlier, in the journal Surgery, Dr. Paul T. Lahti told of 611 consecutive patients he sent home even more speedily from the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., and Grace Hospital in Detroit. Of 67 appendicitis patients, only seven stayed in the hospital even as long as the average Norwalk patient. All 87 of his young single-hernia patients were sent home within two days of their operations. Of 72 gall-bladder convalescents, 59 were out in five days...
...example, one Australian species has a hard, pointed structure at the front of its head that it uses as a saw and that the caterpillar of one kind of silk moth leaves an exit hole when it builds the cocoon. The species Kafatos chose to work with, the Chinese Oak Silk Moth, however, had no such obvious method...
...even dialogue from other writers' novels and plays. More surprisingly, he has lost the forked tongue that contributed so much to the venomous delight of Virginia Woolf. Albee unquestionably is the finest talent fostered off-Broadway, but he remains a dramatic sapling who threatens never to become an oak...
...reconstruct the story of Germany's A-bomb project, British Historian David Irving interviewed German scientists, studied recently declassified papers, and discovered a supply of captured German documents that had been lying unused and neglected for many years in an AEC warehouse at Oak Ridge, Tenn. From his meticulous research he has put together a chilling account of a project that might have changed the outcome of the war and reduced London or New York, rather than Hiroshima and Nagasaki to radioactive ashes...
...latest acquisition-President Charpie-should keep innovation coming. The holder of a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Charpie joined Union Carbide at 25 when he went to work at the Government's Carbide-run Oak Ridge nuclear laboratories in 1950. Rising through Carbide's technological ranks, Charpie was tapped to head its electronics division when it was formed two years ago, there oversaw development of new laser systems, fuel cells and other items...