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...first incision--a small round hole through which the robotic arm will enter the left side of Oaks' chest. First goes the camera, then the miniature forceps and finally a tool called a cautery, which will be used to isolate the artery that the surgeons plan to attach to the heart to restore proper blood flow. As Michler steps back, the robot springs to life. Looking like the legs of an oversize metallic spider, the long black arms start to gyrate--both outside and deep inside the patient's body...
...hour later, several inches of the artery are dangling from the chest. While Michler and his team have the go-ahead from the FDA to attach the artery robotically to the beating heart, Michler's team is waiting for a better instrument to stabilize a small area on the heart so they can more precisely attach the artery. But even though they will finish the job by hand today, there's no need for a giant incision. Instead, they will work between the ribs in a hole no wider than a tennis ball to reattach the artery. About five hours...
...Whenever you start a tax-cut feeding frenzy in Washington it's almost impossible to turn it off. A sampling of special interest cuts lawmakers are eager to attach to future tax bills...
...past few years have witnessed a boom for the testing industry. While standardized tests have been used for decades to measure students across school districts and state boundaries, only recently have schools and governments begun to attach significant consequences to the results. In many states, a high school student who passes courses and fulfills the graduation requirements may still be denied a diploma on the basis of a single standardized test. This practice places far too much weight on a few hours of a student's entire academic career. And the recent news that companies designing and grading these tests...