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...body. The implant's electronic heart and soul is its microcircuitry. Designed by Dr. M.S. Heilman and Engineer Alois Langer at Medrad/Intec Systems, a small medical technology firm in Pittsburgh, the little package (total weight: 250 grams, or 9 oz.) is placed just under the skin of the abdomen. In a 1½-hour operation, two electrodes are led to the heart-one through veins to the right atrium, the other to the tip of the heart's ventricles. Unlike pacemakers, which give a steady stream of tiny electric prods to a sluggish heart, the defibrillator is programmed...
Mother was right: stand up straight. Keep the body relaxed but erect, although not in the ramrod West Point style. Throw back the shoulders, keep the abdomen pulled in. As a check, stand with heels, buttocks, shoulders and head pressed firmly against a wall. If you can barely slip your hand between the wall and the small of the back, mother should have no reason to complain...
...balance; sit-ups that include touching the toes; pushing forward as far as possible on a bent knee; curling forward while seated in a chair; and tucking knees to chest while lying flat on the back. Their purpose: to firm up the various muscles, such as those of the abdomen, chest and hips, that support the spine; only a few minutes of daily exercising should suffice. The movements may be uncomfortable at first, and each exercise should be repeated only two or three times when starting out such a program. If there is any pain, the exercising should be halted...
Players usually spend the weeks before Wimbledon fine-tuning their games. Borg spent the weeks before the 1976 tournament overhauling the most difficult shot in the game. Two hours a day for 14 days, he did nothing but serve. That regimen so strained the muscles in his chest and abdomen that he played in pain throughout the tournament. But it worked. ; "The new serve was why I won Wimbledon the first time," says Borg. "The people in the crowd had been used to seeing me serve for years, and suddenly, here I was, serving so different. They could not believe...
...city. This was near where McDuffie, a former Marine and the father of three children, had lived. White motorists who strayed into the area were hauled from their cars and beaten. Police found one man with his ear and his tongue cut off and a bullet wound in his abdomen. A red rose had been stuffed into his mouth. Near African Square Park, a car repeatedly drove over two white men who had been beaten up and left lying in the street. "They just dragged these couple of guys out and stomped them to death," said one eyewitness. When...