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With a war chest of $206,000 in leftover campaign funds, Gramm, a former economics professor, should have little trouble regaining his seat as a Republican. Among three declared opponents so far, Dan Kubiak, a lackluster former Democratic state representative, appears to be the strongest...
...unprecedented $180 billion in fiscal 1983. High unemployment plagued Western Europe as well, and the multibillion-dollar debts of more than two dozen nations gave international financiers a severe fright. It was also a year in which the first artificial heart began pumping life inside a dying man's chest, a year in which millions cheered the birth of cherubic Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Britain, and millions more rooted for a wrinkled, turtle-like figure struggling to find its way home to outer space...
...black-tie dinners, he has been known to flop to the floor, tuck his knees to his chest and roll from side to side. He jokes about one day posing with Jane Fonda, both in leotards, displaying the fitness of their sleek bodies. He has signed a contract to write a diet book in which he will explain in detail his theory that if you drink and eat at the same sitting, you get fat because the liquid washes away digestion-aiding enzymes in the mouth...
Then DeVries removed the two pumping chambers (or ventricles) of Clark's heart, leaving the two atria, which function as storage chambers for blood. In all, about two-thirds of the heart were cut away. The cavity in the chest of the 6-ft. 2-in. Clark could easily accommodate the Jarvik-7. "There's room enough for two!" said DeVries with delight. The prosthesis is slightly larger than an average heart and too large, in fact, for most women...
...Saturday when, after he had been taken off the critical list, he was ordered back into surgery for minor repairs. The operation went well, but Clark still faces a high risk of blood clotting, pneumonia and especially infection, which could develop around the tubes that enter his chest; they carry the pulses of air that drive the heart. But the artificial organ does have a key advantage over one from a human donor: since the plastic device contains no tissue, Clark's body is less likely to reject...