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VEINS AND ARTERIES. Blood vessels present a special challenge: they must be strong yet flexible enough to expand and contract with each heartbeat. Joseph Vacanti's group has grown a tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then...
...nearly attaining the speakership, an office that is third in the line of succession. "Say what you want to about Larry Flynt," the first respondent declared, "but if Livingston hadn't been exposed and Bill Clinton had been forced out of office, we could have had an adulterer a heartbeat away from the presidency...
...bypasses my heart will not take a third--too dangerous for a surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available until...
...these kinds of negotiations are improper," he said. Of course, none of these companies have a monopoly like Microsoft's to use as leverage. But the talks may become a vindication of Microsoft's central claim -- that you can't regulate an industry that turns topsy-turvy in a heartbeat. Meanwhile, such a deal couldn't come at a better time for Netscape, which has been struggling financially for three quarters but has seen its stock more than double in the past month. Antitrust, it seems, can be very good for business...
...novel, she excels in conveying an underlying rumble of disquiet, a feeling that something is imperceptibly off-kilter. Like Ronny' missing big toes, there is a sense that something profoundly important lies just out of four sight. The cadence of the sentences resound at the level of a missed heartbeat: "He turned and cut into the sandwich. The yolk was cold, and the blade was much sharper than he'd anticipated." The resonances eventually swell to an emotionally intense climax, as Nathan and Jim's secret about their awful father is drawn to the fore...