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In a laparoscopic appendectomy, all of the following methods could be used for dissection of the appendix EXCEPT:

What is another way of saying “cephalad to caudad”?

Which suture configuration is used to anastomose vessels in transplants?

_______________ was Eisenhower’s Secretary of State and led the effort to “roll back” communism claiming that the Democrats’ policy of containment was “immoral and passive.”

The ________________ Plan was the Soviet Union’s response the United States’ announcement of the Marshall Plan. 

In some ways, the Soviet Union’s initial refusal to withdraw its forces from ________________ was the first crisis of the Cold War and seemed to confirm the wisdom of the Long Telegram.

After the French were defeated in Vietnam, the United States recognized ______________ as the leader of South Vietnam. He was Catholic and pro-western and very quickly alienated the large Buddhist population. In time, he became an authoritarian.  

At the ___________________, Truman hinted that the US had a powerful new weapon but did not tell Stalin about the atomic bomb.

_______________ won the power struggle after Stalin’s death and quickly moved to diffuse Cold War tensions so he could focus on domestic concerns. He controlled the USSR from 1953 to 1955.

Following Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s trip to the United States relations between the superpowers improved to the point that the two were going to meet at the Paris Summit. That summit was cancelled, however, because of ___________________.