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...accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure. He had an 80 percent chance of dying within 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The Artificial Heart Recipient | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...AbioCor runs on a tiny internal pump that spins about 10,000 times a minute, moving hydraulic fluid through a valve that alternately allows blood to be pumped to the lungs or the body. There is a small battery inside the device powering its control unit; that battery is in turn powered by an external battery pack (worn on the belt or suspenders) that transfers energy across the skin, without any connections. Without wires. Without tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The Artificial Heart Recipient | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...makes images like the one at left. Such 3-D computer maps are assembled from seismic data and, along with soaring energy prices, are helping drive the global oil-and-gas-exploration business. Magic Earth's "data-mining" software provides geologists with color-coded guides to rock formations and fluid densities. Its visual clues, says CEO Michael Zeitlin, can be analyzed more quickly and accurately than reams of numbers and graphs. And its improved accuracy means drilling fewer dry holes, reducing cost and environmental impact. Claims Zeitlin: "We've improved the probability of striking oil from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Jun. 11, 2001 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...Most commentators agreed, especially after the PP and the Socialists joined in an informal coalition to dislodge the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose incumbent 'lehendakari', Juan José Ibarretxe, looks a lot like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and whose oratory is as awkward as Mayor Oreja's is fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks, But No Thanks | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

This the movie does by employing the latest in animation technology. The producers call it a "fluid animation system." We are powerless to explain how it works, but we can describe what it produces: a very persuasive three-dimensionality and an astonishingly subtle range of facial expressions for all Shrek's characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Monstrously Good | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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