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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings. To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton. • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather. To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest. • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix. Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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HOSPITALS (cont’d): first secretary, second president, and charter member of the Board of Managers. Its original home, the Pine Building, still serves as a section of the hospital, housing offices and libraries. Even the original Portuguese floor tiles survive. The hospital had its own fire engine, one that can be viewed there today. The gardens contain plants that were used medicinally during the 1800s. • Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital is America’s third oldest hospital, established in 1811. At the time of its founding, the United States had only two other general hospitals, the Pennsylvania Hospital and the New York Hospital. It quickly became the first teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. This 1000bed hospital has had its share of medical firsts, including the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia in 1846, the identification of appendicitis in 1886, and the first replantation of a severed arm in 1962. • William Worrall Mayo, a surgeon from Lancashire, England, traveled to Rochester, Minnesota in 1863, to serve for the military draft board during the American Civil War. His wife and two toddler sons joined him the following year, and Dr. Mayo opened a small private medical practice above the Union Drug Store. His practice thrived for many years, with his sons joining him after their graduation from medical school. An 1883 tornado changed Rochester’s history, destroying one-third of the town, causing 37 deaths and 200 injuries. Talks began about establishing a hospital in Rochester. When it opened in 1889 under the name Saint Mary’s Hospital, the Mayo boys and their father, now 70 years old, joined the staff. As the town outgrew the facility, new clinic buildings were built. • Today Mayo Clinic has facilities in Rochester, (continued on next page)

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Jacksonville, Florida, and Phoenix Arizona. The main clinic in Rochester employs upwards of 34,000 people, including over 4,700 physicians and research scientists. Last year, 1.3 million people from all 50 U.S. states and 136 countries came to Mayo Clinic for care. It’s ranked as the No. 1 hospital in the country and is also on the list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” • Walter Reed Medical Center is the hospital set aside for the United States’ military forces. It opened in May 1909 through the efforts of Army Major William C. Borden. Borden and his close friend Walter Reed had worked side by side for years at the Army Medical School. Walter Reed had gained recognition as the researcher who discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes rather than by direct contact. Reed studied the disease in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Less than a year after his return from Cuba, Major Reed underwent an appendectomy performed by Major Borden. He developed peritonitis and perished from the ailment within days. Borden lobbied for the new military hospital to be named for his friend. Today, 16,000 active and retired military personnel are admitted to Walter Reed every year. • A simple prayer uttered by entertainer Danny Thomas led to America’s number one pediatric care hospital, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Thomas was a struggling comedian trying to break into the business when he attended Mass at a Detroit church. He put the last of his funds -- $7.00 – into the offering plate and prayed to St. Jude to provide his family, including his soon-to-be-born first child. His prayer, “Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine,” was answered a week later, with a gig that put Thomas on the road to success. (continued on next page)

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HOSPITALS (cont’d): • Honoring his promise, in 1962, Danny Thomas founded St. Jude’s in Memphis, Tennessee. The hospital specializes in treating children with cancer, sickle cell disease, and other serious illnesses. When St. Jude’s opened, the overall survival rate for childhood cancer was less than 20%. Today, that rate has reached 80% for several types of pediatric cancer. The hospital is on Fortune magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Although the daily cost of keeping the facility running is about $2.4 million, there is no cost to patients. • In 1902, businessman Kaspare Cohn donated a two-story Victorian home in Los Angeles to the Hebrew Benevolent Society to create a 12bed hospital for the Jewish community. It was simply known as the Kaspare Cohn Hospital, and its services were free. Los Angeles’ first female doctor, Dr. Sarah Vasen, acted as superintendent for four years. By 1910, the facility had moved and increased to a 50-bed hospital, followed by another upgrade in 1930 and a name change to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Another Jewish hospital, Bikur Cholim, established in 1921, merged with Cedars in 1961 to become Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. In 1972, a new facility was constructed, using a $4 million contribution from cosmetic giant Max Factor’s Family Foundation. More than 2,000 physicians are employed by Cedars-Sinai. • Cedars-Sinai is well known for its services to the stars. Several famous folks have passed away within its walls, including Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, Charles Bronson, Johnny Carson, Natalie Cole, and Debbie Reynolds.

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NEW AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS LAUNCHING IN NEW ROCKETS NASA has turned 60 and continues to explore our planet and is a concrete way to see your tax 1. 3 dollars at work. Explore the website NASA.gov 2. “Peter Pan’s Flight” for all sorts of information about the cosmos.

NASA assigned the first wave of U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station. Since the end of the manned space shuttle person in history – 22 Awards and 59 nominations program in 2011, astronauts have been launching out of Russia to get to the ISS. Russia has charged 372% more to launch astronauts with a going rate of $70 million per seat. This new class of astronauts marks a beginning of a new era of American manned spaceflight.

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NEW AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS LAUNCHING IN NEW ROCKETS (continued from page 4)

NASA’s continuous presence on the International Space Station for almost 20 years has progressed technology and knowledge about long-term spaceflight. This research has helped make dramatic improvements in technology of infrastructure, medicine, and other health sciences. The agency assigned the nine astronauts to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. Additional crew members will be assigned by other space agencies from NASA’s international partners. The astronauts are, from left to right: Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada, and Williams.

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August is National Catfish Month, so Tidbits is swimming along the bottom collecting the facts on these ray-finned fish. • There are 3,000+ species of catfish, with differing varieties found on all continents except Antarctica. For the most part, catfish in the wild are found in fresh water, such as rivers and streams, although a few species have adapted to life in salt water. They can live in water with a temperature from just above freezing to nearly 100 degrees F (38 C). • Catfish can be found in a wide variety of colors, including green, yellow, silver, grey, white, or tan. These fish are carnivorous, dining on insects, snails, worms, frogs, newts, other fish, and fish eggs. They’re famous for being bottom dwellers, feeding on the bottom of the water. • There is a vast difference between the smallest and largest species of catfish. The smallest, the banjo, is just 0.39 inches (1 cm) long, while the largest, the Mekong, might reach a length of nearly 9 feet (2.74 m) and weigh close to 650 lbs. (295 kg). • Catfish have an unusual organ called the Weberian apparatus that enables them to communicate with each other underwater. This organ connects the swim bladder to the fish’s auditory system, straight into the inner ear. • Catfish derive their name from their prominent barbels, those sensory organs near the mouth that resemble a cat’s whiskers. They can develop up to four sets of whiskers. They don’t have scales, and their mucus-covered skin enables them to breathe through the skin. • In the wild, catfish feed on the bottom of the water on a diet of insects, snails, other fish, and fish eggs. However, farm-raised fish eat feed pellets made of a mix of soybeans, corn, wheat, and nutrients, that float on the pond’s surface. A catfish’s entire body is covered with about 100,000 taste buds, with the greatest concentration on the whiskers. (continued on next page)

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1. In a food processor, puree nectarines, scallion, 2 tablespoons lime juice, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt and habanero pepper. Transfer to a medium bowl and set aside. 2. Heat grill to medium-high. In a small bowl, whisk remaining lime juice, olive oil and salt together. 3. Split lobster tails lengthwise, remove membrane if desired, and brush meat with the lime-oil glaze. Place lobsters on grill, meat side down, and roast for 4 minutes; turn over to shell side and grill until meat is opaque and cooked through, 4 to 5 minutes more. 4. Transfer to a platter, garnish with lime wedges, and serve with reserved nectarine sauce. Serves 4. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our Web site at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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