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Nobody has talked much about artificial hearts in recent years, and no wonder. It took Washington dentist Barney Clark 112 miserable days to die after being fitted with the Jarvik-7 heart back in 1982--four months of suffering that included convulsions, kidney failure, respiratory problems, a wandering mind and, finally, multi-organ system failure. In the aftermath of that debacle, the New York Times nicknamed artificial-heart research the "Dracula of Medical Technology...
...your Mom again. I keep getting, you know, these pornographic messages in my Hotmail inbox and I don't know what to do. I don't look at porn, really. I don't know why they're sending them to me. They say things like, 'Important Message from Your Dentist,' so I open them and then I get all these dirty web site addresses. Please call me and tell me what to do. I'm getting very nervous." Click...
...evangelicals as a Kennedy's might be to the population at large. They know about her father's long absences on Crusades (she has described her mom Ruth as a "single mother"); how he introduced Anne, then 17, to 29-year-old college-sports star and airman-turned-dentist Danny Lotz; and how, after Lotz proposed on their third date, Billy intoned, "Anne, I think Danny Lotz is the man you're going to marry." Early miscarriages contributed to a period of depression, and even after her three children were born, Lotz sometimes felt trapped "in small talk and small...
...dinner? Probably not, if only because the court's ruling is so entirely outside the general trend of law in this area. The ruling is "out of whack," says professor Martin Guggenheim, who specializes in children's law at New York University. "A child can't go to the dentist without permission, can't have any kind of emergency surgery, can't choose school, religion, clothing, housing. If you took this ruling to its logical extension, a child would have the right to go to court and say, 'I'm a New Yorker, but I want to move to California...
...years ago, we petitioned the university successfully for a health care plan," she says. "But it's only for single people, and it doesn't cover dental. Some grad students haven't been to the dentist in years because they can't afford...