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...question: Where do they come up with these names?), travel instead to Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...digital age, they're obeying an old rule: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Witness Warner Music (corporate cousin of TIME.com) and BMG's settlement Thursday with their old young nemesis, MP3.com, over copyright infringements. The free-music upstart that wanted to turn the industry on its ear is now in bed with two of the industry's Big Five (the rest are expected to follow soon). The outlaw has been deputized. "Whenever the record industry sues someone, you know they're then going to make a deal," says TIME Digital writer Nathaniel Wice. "The defendants turn...
...device still means going through the skin and thus providing a possible infection site, but researchers have found ways to keep the invasiveness to a minimum. The Jarvik 2000--a far more elegant successor to the Jarvik-7--runs power through a fixed jack implanted behind the patient's ear. And Abiomed's AbioCor uses a small transmitter outside the skin to beam radio waves for conversion to electricity inside. Designers have also found ingenious ways to have their hearts do the actual pumping: the AbioCor is essentially a sphere within a sphere, with the inner ball scuttling back...
...into the Grille). The first gun we decided to shoot was the 9mm Glock, a sleek black gun that is universally praised for its ultra-reliable nature (it can be shot underwater), and its light weight. After purchasing some bullets and receiving the appropriate eye and ear protection, we made our way though a set of double doors and into the range. There were about three people shooting when we entered. One was a middle-aged man who was shooting an automatic handgun while wearing a holster with two guns strapped to his waist. The others were a younger couple...
...against, it seems, is agreement itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world to sing in off-key counterpoint. To their minds, the IMF and the World Bank are tyrannical choirmasters with steel batons and a tin ear for cultural differences. They finance mammoth industrial projects that sweep up hundreds of workers from the countryside, decimating small farms and villages while swelling urban slums. They bottle up small streams into huge lakes contained behind gigantic dams, and they steer the contracts for the dams' construction to American and European...