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ARTIFICIAL HEART David Saucier, a NASA expert researching rocket-engine fuel pumps in the 1980s, was recovering from heart surgery by renowned surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey when he had an idea: What about using the technology in the pump that powers the space shuttle to create a heart pump for patients? Saucier talked to Baylor College of Medicine physicians, and for almost two decades NASA and DeBakey worked on a mini ventricular device. The size of a pink beveled eraser, it helps adults and children survive for up to two years while awaiting a transplant...
...political of industries in Europe, and it has long been one of its most regulated. Back in the 1950s, the European Union itself was founded on the basis of an official scheme to manage steel and coal output and prices, and when the industry ran into trouble in the 1980s, governments across Europe poured in billions of dollars of state aid in an attempt to keep it alive. But times have changed. State aid is now banned, barring exceptional circumstances. And with the emergence of China, India, Brazil and Russia as fast-growing world economic forces, demand for all sorts...
What would the most advanced, most forward-looking, most self-assured country in history do without its periodic crises of confidence? In 1957 the Soviets put a tin can into space, and the U.S. thought the sky was falling. In the 1980s we began crying into our soup because Sony was selling so many nifty Trinitrons. "American decline" was all the fashion until the vaunted Japanese model of tight organization and industrial planning took a nosedive and a bunch of twentysomething Americans tinkering in their garages created untold wealth and took over the world...
...that means Flint, Michigan, whether that means failed states, whether that means struggling middle classes caught in binds everywhere—are of equal importance.” His mention of Flint was an allusion to the fact that General Motors laid off employees in that city during the 1980s and 1990s as the automaker shifted jobs overseas...
Another popular misconception was that students with SM suffered from emotional or physical abuse and that their silence stemmed from an effort to keep the trauma secret. "That was presented as fact until the late 1980s," says Black, "even though there was no proof." There is still a dearth of scientific literature in the field, he says, in part because the people in the best position to offer insights into the disorder's crippling effects--the affected kids--have so much difficulty communicating...