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From the beginning, Schroeder's treatment seemed to go more smoothly than that of his predecessor, Seattle Dentist Barney Clark, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Clark's surgery and his 112 days of life with the man-made pump were fraught with life-and-death crises. "I felt certain that he would die on the operating table," reflected Dr. Robert Jarvik, 38, designer of the Jarvik-7 heart used in both patients. This time, he said, "I felt the opposite...
...Christmas truces are threatening to unravel, and in the Moscow zoo the panda is either pregnant or dying. At home in Glasgow, having finished her Christmas shoplifting, Disc Jockey Alan Bird's girlfriend of four years walks out on him in the middle of decorating the tree. His dentist hurts, a psychiatrist is uncomprehending, and both sides in the territorial war between Mr. Bunny and McCool's, mobile purveyors of ice cream, keep damaging his car to register displeasure at his peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that is to say awful, Yuletide season...
Currently there are 16,000 Audio Environments clients, including dentists, the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet, clothing stores, Howard Johnson's restaurants and 26 airlines. For a monthly fee of $45, an establishment can choose music that varies to fit desired moods: peppy during a frantic rush-hour lunch, distracting during a dental procedure or tranquil when customers should linger, as in a boutique. The fare ranges from Bach to rock. Says Malone: "If the right music is playing, it supports fantasy, with the person buying the outfit or wanting to come back to the store." Or maybe...
Hearts at the University of Utah surely skipped a beat last week when Dr. William DeVries, 40, the pioneer surgeon who in 1982 implanted an artificial heart in retired Dentist Barney Clark, made a surprise announcement: he is resigning from the Salt Lake City medical center to join Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville. The institute is owned by Humana Inc., which operates a chain of 90 hospitals in the U.S. and three foreign countries...
...Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show the 200 white homing pigeons that circled around toward the end, got into the act on a mission of peace. Carpenter thinks the doves mentioned in the Bible may have been pigeons instead. "I feel pigeons symbolize peace," he said, "and for an Olympic event...