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...rest of the way. Sometimes, just talking, I would be gasping for breath." So the Pittsburgh mother of two, whose history of coronary ailments includes two heart attacks, checked into the city's Allegheny General Hospital to have a bubble, or aneurysm, in her heart's left pumping chamber surgically excised and the tissue repaired...
...University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Cardiac Surgeon Larry Stephenson has been exploring other applications. By wrapping conditioned skeletal muscle into a fist-size pouch, he has created a mini-pumping chamber that he hopes can be used to boost circulation. Implanted in animals, the pouches, which may be located almost anywhere in the body, have enhanced blood flow as much as 20% for eight hours. Stephenson believes that such auxiliary pumps could reduce the need for risky open-heart surgery. They might also obviate the need for transplants for patients whose hearts are weak but not completely failing. Implanting such...
...closest allies, senior or junior. Republican Packwood, in contrast, talks of bringing along all 20 Senators on the Finance Committee to face as few as eight Representatives. That would not pack the conference, however, since all decisions have to be approved by a majority of the delegates from each chamber, voting separately...
Lobbyists usually prefer to work in the shadows, but last week they found themselves blinking uncomfortably in the light. In a moment that merged two historical events, the most radical tax-reform plan in decades arrived on the Senate floor the very week that the chamber was opened up for the first time to live television...
...camera. With tongue in cheek, Senator John Glenn of Ohio pledged, "I plan to do nothing different." Then he took out a makeup kit, dabbed at his forehead and smoothed his thinning hair. One of the younger and more telegenic Senators who sits at the back of the chamber, Albert Gore of Tennessee, complained that the yellow wall that serves as his TV backdrop looks like "a Greyhound bus terminal...