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...weapon. Some hold the dark theory that the U.S. used it against Japan in order to intimidate the Soviets, but clearly its central mission was to win and end a war. After that, however, the bomb became an instrument of policy rather than deed-a great cocked fist that would show off its power in tests from time to time, but otherwise remain immobile and silent, looming ever larger in the world's imagination. In a sense, the world's imagination became its accomplice. For 36 years the mere thought of the bomb has shaped and troubled international...
Most of the 4,000 men and women from 23 countries boarding planes bound for Israel carried an oddly shaped parcel. As airport security guards soon discovered, the packages contained rocks, some as small as a fist, some the size of a tombstone, all inscribed with the names of victims of Hitler's massacre of European Jewry. The passengers were Holocaust survivors and their children, headed for an unprecedented four-day meeting in Jerusalem, where their stones will be used to build a memorial for the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. Explained Auschwitz...
Photo has also done her share of crazy things: she has demonstrated that her entire fist can be inserted into her mouth. She once wanted to fit into a dress so much that she ate an entire box of Ex-Lax. And she lost $110 last year betting that the St. Louis Cardinals would end up in first place last year in the National League East (they finished fourth...
Even more spectacular is an operation that researchers at the University of Utah hope to do soon: implantation of an artificial heart. The challenge is formidable, since the heart is one of nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will...
...stormy response of complacently entrenched ignorance. In the title role, Jeffrey DeMunn is prickly, volatile and poignant. Playwright Sackler reanimates the theme of his The Great White Hope: a man who defies the norm and opens society's eyes may well be crushed by society's iron fist. -By T.E.Kalem