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Willie, who served as a consultant to the Cambridge School Committee in updating Controlled Choice in 1995, traveled to Lee County last year to assist D'Alessandro with her own program...
McCarthy has been more cautious than Batista and more research oriented. He picks only patients who are healthy enough to be on the transplant list, so that if the procedure does not work they can be put on a left-ventricular assist device, or artificial pump, until a suitable donor can be found. "We've had a 72% success rate with the procedure," says McCarthy. "If you look at all the people who die just waiting for a heart transplant, those odds are pretty good...
American surgeons like McCarthy have brought a level of scientific professionalism to Batista's procedure. To be sure, the greatest benefit of U.S. hospitals is the state-of-the-art postoperative care. American doctors also offer a safety net for patients by placing them on a left-ventricular assist device that helps the heart pump blood into the body if the procedure fails. In addition, McCarthy has somewhat changed the procedure. Where Batista does his work on a beating heart, McCarthy stops the heart so he can make cleaner cuts (a common practice in open-heart surgery...
...powered by radioactive isotopes--in this case about 72 lbs. of plutonium 238. If the spacecraft were destroyed, insist these critics, some of the plutonium could be pulverized and wafted away by the wind. Even worse, Cassini is supposed to swing by Earth in 1999 for a gravity assist that would sling it out toward Saturn. If the probe comes too close, it could re-enter the atmosphere at 42,000 m.p.h. and vaporize, releasing enough plutonium to be inhaled by millions of people. The radiation from P-238 is harmless under most conditions, but breathing in particles...
Meanwhile, the charge that photographers did not assist the dying seems to be withering away--though not entirely. While telephone records show that not one of them called emergency services, one photographer apparently tried but dialed a wrong number. He did not, however, bother to try again. Two paparazzi are singled out as interfering with and abusing police while continuing to snap the death scene...