At birth, S.D. weighed 3019g, was 49 cm long, and had a head circumference of 36 cm—all appropriate for gestational age. Routine plotting on astandard growth curve chart for newborn males revealedthat he was at the 50th percentile for weight and head cir-cumference, and at the 25th ...
Three major turning points lead to Pan Am's demise: the company invested half a billion dollars on 747s right before an oil embargo raised the price of oil 400%; it purchased National Airlines in order to fly domestically, resulting in a loss of $18.9 million; and in December 1989, it ...
Nonetheless, Seyfer, who spent 11 years as a Walter Reed Army Hospital surgeon, wanted to help. And so he scheduled Sam for surgery in June 1998. A month before he asked a friend, the chairman of the plastic-surgery department at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, to join him. A week...