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WIRED Americans with an irregular heartbeat are used to the idea of a pacemaker implanted in the chest. Now researchers report that patients with congestive heart failure may also be helped by a hunk of hardware. In two-thirds of 134 subjects studied, an implantable device called InSync restored the heart's malfunctioning electrical circuitry. As a result, patients could walk longer distances and climb more stairs without experiencing shortness of breath or fatigue. InSync is not yet approved by the FDA, but the nod is expected in late summer...
...Bush-Cheney situation produces role-reversal jokes--about Bush being a heartbeat away from the presidency, and so on. Having lived through medical experiences similar to the Vice President's, I have a wary and complex attitude toward the fact that the most important man in Washington aside from Bush has been playing peekaboo for so long with his own mortality...
...Bush-Cheney situation produces role-reversal jokes - about Bush being a heartbeat away from the presidency, and so on. Having lived through medical experiences similar to the vice president's, I have a wary and complex attitude toward the fact that the most important man in Washington, aside from Bush, has been playing peekaboo for so long with his own mortality. When I contemplate Cheney's situation, I see my own (minus power, limousines and Secret Service...
...they come and headed for nowhere, but he grew up to be his sport's father figure, Dad without the breaks, and a corporate titan to boot. He could regale a crowd of GM dealers with war stories for an hour--Mr. Charm--then shift gears in a heartbeat, chiding drivers who wanted to slow the cars down as "candy asses." He made tens of millions of dollars racing and tens of millions more running Dale Earnhardt Inc., but even at 49, a man of considerable responsibilities and with nothing left to prove, he would never take his foot...
Young Robert had turned around only a heartbeat before the shooting began. It looked as if his father had lurched forward, but he was not sure. He ran to his parents' bedroom, tearing open drawers. "Where's Daddy's gun? Where's Daddy's gun?" he yelled. The 9-mm handgun was missing. Robert opened the closet where Phyllis and Derwin kept shotguns and rifles inherited from her father and his grandfather, who had been hunters. Robert found the rifles but no ammunition. "Why are you even looking for guns?" his mother asked him, still thinking the shooting was next...