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...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 not to interfere with the heart's normal pattern. Rather, it responds only to severe aberrations in beat...
...grand tradition of Broadway and Hollywood, the Kennedy School of Government brought Harvard a bit of the old sparkle and a splash of the spot light this year. Using the glamorous Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum, a three-story atrium smack in the middle of the K-School structure, as his stage, Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, orchestrated a gala revue of presidential candidates, prominent journalists, and other luminaries. After 105 presentations and an attendance record which would put some major league baseball teams to shame, Mitropoulos can lean back and reflect, "I think we were pretty successful...
...Blizzard of '78 slowly melted in the Yard, three freshmen baked a cake in the Union Kitchen. The three had heard that President Bok was celebrating his birthday and they planned to surprise him. None of the three had ever really met Derek Bok--they shook hands in the atrium of the Fogg that September--but they figured it would be a nice gesture...
...Forum, an open, multi-level atrium in the center of the building, expresses architecturally its role as the School's center for open discussion of political issues. "It is physically and symbolically the soul and the heart of the School," Associate Dean Ira Jackson '62 said. Fifty scheduled events have taken place to date, before a total audience of 10,000. Last fall's debate between gubernatorial candidates Francis W. Hatch '46 and Edward J. King was broadcast by radio. Jackson said the debate wouldn't have been possible at the School without the Forum. But he admitted that...
...atrium with a large sculpture by Alexander Calder...