Word: barneys
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...Boston Globe article, a high school-aged O'Brien cited writing, history and politics as his three main interests. He served as managing editor of his school newspaper, The Sagamore, and interned for Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass...
...movie; their lust for dinolore appears to be insatiable. But the rest of us will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in Aladdin. And the narrative alertness of Toy Story 2. As James Newton Howard's nonstop score pushes us to an emotional involvement, we hope in vain that Barney will pop out from behind a rock. Alas, someone else holds the copyright...
Nobody has talked much about artificial hearts in recent years, and no wonder. It took Washington dentist Barney Clark 112 miserable days to die after being fitted with the Jarvik-7 heart back in 1982--four months of suffering that included convulsions, kidney failure, respiratory problems, a wandering mind and, finally, multi-organ system failure. In the aftermath of that debacle, the New York Times nicknamed artificial-heart research the "Dracula of Medical Technology...
Impressive as all this sounds, nobody is sure what it will be like to live with any of these machines long-term. Maybe technology has merely found a more efficient way to torture heart patients. But horrifying as it was, many mechanical-heart researchers cite the Barney Clark disaster as pivotal. Despite a hiatus after Clark's demise, scientists eventually resumed their research with increased federal funds, and the FDA began developing greater expertise in evaluating the devices. Now that expertise may actually start saving lives...
...part of this imaginative literacy series for kids ages 4 to 7 (weekdays; check local listings). In fact, well aware that parents are part of the kiddie TV audience whether they like it or not, PBS has created a welcome thing in the age of Teletubbies and Barney--a fun educational show for kids with enough sops for adults to avoid inspiring a wave of vasectomies and tubal ligations...