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...World Series film makers put a microphone around Anderson's neck during the Reds' showdown with the Oakland A's last fall. After one questionable call, Anderson was filmed charging out of the dugout for the usual scene of angry gesturing and foot kicking. Then, standing chest to chest with Umpire Jim Honochick, Sparky pronounced the words that fans have waited so long to hear: "You know something? You might be right...
...traffic violators, the would-be assassins screeched to a halt outside the three-story apartment building where Ambassador Timor lives with his wife and two children. One Arab fired a burst of his submachine gun at a Cypriot policeman on guard outside the building, seriously wounding him in the chest. Another planted a large handbag filled with dynamite at the main entrance. The Arabs were apparently unaware of two things: that there was another entrance closer to Timor's apartment, and that Timor had already left, five minutes earlier, to walk to the Israeli embassy half a mile away...
...pacemaker, a miniature machine that controls the heart rate by sending out regular electrical impulses, has meant new life for some 70,000 U.S. cardiac patients. But it has also meant a biennial trip to the hospital for surgery. Reason: the conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed...
...converts the heat to electrical power for the pacemaker. The device is similar to the nuclear pacemaker inserted in a French patient in 1970 and now used by 24 Americans. Both pacemakers are expected to operate for at least ten years. That is long enough to make the previous chest operation only a memory...
With 15 seconds left in the first quarter, Cohen added a garbage goal, batting in a loose ball that had richocheted off Everist's chest...