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...That physiological feedback capacity would mark a major step forward, probably allowing patients to live more normally than in the past," says Dr. Timothy Gardner, president of the American Heart Association, of the new French device...
Working with the European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS) - best known as the maker of the Airbus jet - French researchers have developed a pioneering new artificial heart. Dr. Alain Carpentier, the heart surgeon who led the development of the device, said that the first heart patients may receive the experimental organ in just three years...
...promise has been at least 15 years in the making. Carpentier, having invented bio-engineered heart valves three decades ago, sought next to create the ultimate artificial heart. His efforts got a major boost in 1993 when the late French media and aerospace magnate Jean-Luc Lagardère and his Matra aviation group - which was later folded into EADS - offered materials and financial and technical support. Carpentier announced the final step of that collaboration last month, along with the prosthetic heart: the launch of Carmat, a new $9.2 million firm that will build and eventually market the heart. Carmat...
...about opportunities in alpine climbing, adding that the club chose Dash for the event because of his unconventional, trailblazing experiences. During the event—which filled the auditorium despite the $5 entry fee—Dash told stories of scaling peaks in remote and hazardous locations, from the French Alps to glaciers in Greenland. The professional climber, who first started scaling mountains during high school, said that one of his earliest motivations was reading a 1996 National Geographic cover story about internationally renowned climber Todd Skinner. Skinner ascended Trango Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, and Dash was intrigued. Dash...
...system.Yet Poundstone knows that his call to action is meaningless unless he can provide a viable alternative. He begins by examining the history of voting theory, finding a rich tradition of discussion on the subject extending back to ancient times. Indeed, the narrative of voting philosophy flows through the French Revolution, finds an unlikely mouthpiece in author Lewis Carroll, and continues to 20th-century economist Kenneth Arrow’s famed “impossibility theorem.” The theorem, which roughly proves that no ranked voting system can be fair, had an enormous impact on democratic thought.But...