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...gadget, which the Russians have demonstrated in both the U.S. and Europe, is an intricate but efficient machine, 5 in. long. Provided that the blood vessel to be rejoined has free ends about ¾ in. long, the machine grasps the ends, turns back a piece to make a cuff on each, then joins the cuffs with tantalum wire staples. The inside bore of the vessel is not reduced, permitting full blood flow. The surgeon can do the stapling in one minute...
...hanged for treason in 1916, three months after the Dublin uprising of Easter Week. In the midst of World War I, he had landed from a German submarine on the coast of Kerry, ostensibly to foment rebellion. A boatload of rifles was to be landed after him but the vessel was intercepted by British warships; Casement was spotted by a farm girl and captured by a pair of village policemen...
...that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris, a $575,000 Riviera villa and the largest privately owned sailing vessel afloat, the three-masted Creole. But his real Golden Fleece is his art collection...
...taken over the job of pumping the recipient animal's blood, reported Dr. Watts R. Webb, who worked on the project with Dr. Hector S. Howard at the University of Mississippi. The heart alone would be too difficult to move, said Dr. Webb, because of the many blood-vessel connections to the lungs. So his team tried transplanting the heart in combination with both lungs, and then with the left lung only...
...combine. This temperature is something like 100 million degrees C., and it must be held for an appreciable fraction of a second while the reaction takes place. Since all known materials turn into vapor at a few thousand degrees, the hot deuterium cannot be contained in any ordinary pressure vessel...