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...Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their fists in a defiant salute and chanted: "Thatcher...
Sadly, many patients are beyond the stage when standard treatments can be of any help. For them, doctors are working on a dramatic last-resort weapon-the replacement of failed hearts. Transplants were all but abandoned in the mid-1970s; only about 20% of the more than a hundred recipients survived a year. Interest is reviving, primarily because of work done at Stanford University. Led by Surgeon Norman Shumway, the Stanford team has performed 209 transplants since 1968 and reports that half of recipients can now be expected to live at least five years. These improved results are largely...
...help achieve these goals. Extremists who perpetuate violence--like members of the IRA and unyielding Protestants such as the Rev. Ian Paisley--only make it harder to arrive at a solution; peace is the prerequisite for a political settlement in Ireland. We condemn groups and individuals in Ireland that resort to violence to achieve their goals. We further believe that the majority's linking of a settlement in Ireland to the need for IRA violence displays a lack of understanding for the complexities of the Irish situation and a shocking disregard for peace and for the people of Norther Ireland...
...Essential fluids ooze out, and natural defenses are too weakened to fight off bacterial infection. To prevent these complications, doctors try to cover burn sites with skin grafts from undamaged portions of the patient's body, but often there is too little skin left and they have to resort to using skin from pigs or cadavers. Being foreign tissue, these grafts are usually rejected in three to 25 days. The ideal solution would be artificial skin, a goal that has eluded scientists. But last week a team of Boston researchers announced they had a successful skin substitute made from...
...process, Close has produced an unattractive art of striking intelligence. "If you do your job right, if you do it one bit at a time, one piece of information at a time, you can end up with something that has emotional impact without having to resort to emotional gestures," he maintains. "Human heads are things people care about. You can't mess around with them-but I'm interested in being flat-footed about it." And in this flat-footed way, Close has done more to redefine the limits of portraiture than any other painter of his generation...