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Twelve years in development at a cost of $4 million, AID (for Automatic Implantable Defibrillator) is largely a triumph for Cardiologist Michel Mirowski, 55, who migrated from Israel with the aim of perfecting it against almost unanimous medical opposition. Experts doubted that such miniaturized equipment could work inside the 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...
While time and subject overlap in the plays of Chekhov and Gorky, the two men differ in their angles of vision. Chekhov was a cardiologist of the wounded heart; Gorky was a cartographer of a scarred social landscape. Chekhov's characters transcend their enervating environment; Gorky's characters drown in the swamp of their surroundings...
...embassy compound, meanwhile, appeared to be settling into an uneasy routine. Among the ambassadors, all were said to be standing up well under the pressure, except one: Venezuela's Virgilio Lovera, 63, a gregarious political appointee diplomat who, at one point last week, was treated by a cardiologist summoned to the embassy. Hitherto known for his lavish parties, Lovera bombarded his embassy and newspapers with telephoned pleas for capitulation. Implored Lovera, in one such call: "This is not a legal problem. This is a human problem that should be resolved in concordance with the law of God to preserve...
DIED. Herman Tarnower, 69, cardiologist who won worldwide fame for his Scarsdale Diet; of gunshot wounds; in White Plains, N.Y. (see NATION...
Herbert J. Levine, 51, is a research cardiologist at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is Harvard-educated, well-traveled (he and his wife Sandy spent two weeks in China last fall) and considers himself a liberal. The Levines live in upper-middle-class West Newton, a few miles outside Boston, and vacation every August on Martha's Vineyard...