Word: connectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Implantable Defibrillators. To help some patients with severe rhythm disruption, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore developed a small device called an automatic implantable defibrillator. This is placed in the abdomen and has electrodes that are connected to the heart's right atrium and to...
The fine weave of the film is connected by haunting Yiddish melodies. Waletzky blends in interviews with Holocaust survivors, revealing the remarkably vivid recall each emigrant possesses. One elderly woman recites several Yiddish folk songs and prayers, and the mix of her voice with the photography brings us back to...
Hernan Siles Zuazo, who won the election in June of last year, had promised to clamp down on the cocaine traders. The statement may have lacked conviction, but the military leaders were not willing to risk their 800 million per year business to find out. The subsequent coup brought to...
A considerable part of what business schools teach is not directly connected to the techniques of business at all. "The most important thing was simply being exposed to the state of the art-plus gaining confidence," says Cathleen Costello, 28, who got her M.B.A. from Columbia in 1979 and now...
It is not necessary that the technology developed by Draper Lab be used to help perpetuate the arms race. But the first step in the Lab's conversion to non-military work must be recognition by the Lab's management that it does contribute to the instability inherent in the...