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Suzanne Sulzberger, art professor at the University of Brussels: "I can only compare restoration to plastic surgery for women. Wrinkles and other signs of age may disappear, but the overall impression is one of artificiality, of untruthfulness...
...medical science begun to learn how different drugs affect individual parts of the brain. In Philadelphia last week, physicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing the brain's components in 20 layers of translucent plastic, and wired for colored lights to elucidate some of its workings...
...smoking is dangerous and often painful for heart-attack victims was explained by researchers from Wayne State University (see EDUCATION). Patients volunteered to let them work two thin plastic tubes into their hearts and put a hollow needle into an arm artery. After three cigarettes, blood pressure and oxygen readings showed that the heart had to work much harder than usual but got little or no extra oxygen. Among the test's financial backers: the Tobacco Industry Research Committee...
Bushwhacked. In Canberra, Australia, a delegation of aborigines complained to the government that plastic, made-in-Japan boomerangs were cutting off their livelihood...
...fact, they used four emboli, the surgeons reported in the A.M.A. Journal: tiny spheres of plastic (methyl methacrylate), with metal fragments inside to show up on X rays, and ranging from 2.5 mm. to 4.2 mm. in diameter. They opened the left side of the anesthetized patient's neck to expose the main branching of the carotid artery, principal supplier of blood to the brain. At 15-minute intervals they inserted successively larger plastic emboli. All came to rest at the base of the malformation, reducing its blood supply. The last and biggest pellet lodged for a while...