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Back in the operating room, Michler prepares for the first incision--a small round hole through which the robotic arm will enter the left side of Oaks' chest. First goes the camera, then the miniature forceps and finally a tool called a cautery, which will be used to isolate the artery that the surgeons plan to attach to the heart to restore proper blood flow. As Michler steps back, the robot springs to life. Looking like the legs of an oversize metallic spider, the long black arms start to gyrate--both outside and deep inside the patient's body...
...Wolf sits hunched over a console that looks as if it came straight out of a video-game arcade. Instead of blasting imaginary bad guys, Wolf is peering into a 3-D display that gives him a surprisingly clear view, magnified up to 10 times, inside the patient's chest. He can see the top of the beating heart, the bulge of every rib and the outline of the artery he needs to reposition. As a dozen nurses, technicians and doctors stand motionless in the darkened operating room gazing at the overhead monitors, Wolf places his thumbs and forefingers into...
...more and more men around 50 coming in," says Yann Levet, who operates two clinics in France. "They say they are feeling strong competition from younger players at work." Sometimes they are simply lazy. Steven, 45, a retail display designer in Ireland, has twice had liposuction done to his chest and waist because he loathes exercise yet wants to look trim...
...Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs, "does not show any remorse for his crime and has little insight into his problems." Father John Kiernan, who used to visit Solomon regularly, says he seemed unaware of the consequences of his rampage. But in 1999, Solomon carved an X across his chest, apparently with a fingernail, and last January he attempted suicide by swallowing 22 pills of the antidepressant Elavil that he had bought from another inmate...
...neighborhoods. Lillie Belle Allen, a mother of two visiting York from South Carolina, was in the back seat of the car and offered to help the terrified driver. When she got out to wave the crowd off, to tell them not to open fire, she was hit in the chest by a shotgun blast. Then more than 100 rounds of bullets were fired...