Word: heartbeating
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World War II pilots rained death and fire by pulling on a lever said to resemble a dill pickle. The modern military pushes a "pickle" button. Anderson has half a heartbeat to push his. Since this isn't war, he is actually dropping a 25-lb. bowling pin with fins called a bomb dummy unit. It contains a small flash charge enabling technicians watching on video screens to pinpoint the hit or miss. Each pilot drops 28 bombs during the six-day contest. Two years ago, the top team triumphed over the runner-up by dropping a single bomb...
...pooches with an irregular heartbeat, there are human pacemakers. In St. Petersburg, the Pinellas Animal Foundation supplies donated human pacemakers to vets who request them for needy canines. Mrs. Florence Myers, 84, who once owned a dachshund, plans to donate her $8,000 pacemaker to the foundation when she dies. Says she: "I just feel it would be nice if someday some dog could...
...with his teddy bear nearby. They had been parted during an operation of staggering complexity and delicacy -- five months in the planning, 22 hours in the execution, and involving 70 doctors, nurses and technicians. The procedure required draining all the blood from the boys' bodies and completely stopping their heartbeat. At week's end both were in critical but stable condition. Until the babies are roused from drug-induced comas, doctors cannot fully assess their health. "Success in this operation is not just separating the twins," says Dr. Mark Rogers, who coordinated the effort. "Success is producing two normal children...
...employees still feared the worst -- wrongly, as it turned out. "Everybody kind of expected that they would have to work a lot harder," says Sherrill. "But what we've found is that they just want you to work faster. They'll invest , money in new machinery in a heartbeat if they think it will make you more productive...
...from everything, back again to the desperate comforts of his own impermeable world of fantasy. It is not a fond farewell. "It's the choice that we make/ And this choice you will take/ Who's laughin' baby." The credits for Smooth Criminal read in part "Michael Jackson's heartbeat recording by Dr. Eric Chevlen digitally processed on the Synclavier." The sound of Jackson's heart may have found its way onto Bad, but what's inside it is unrevealed. Only one thing is certain: there is no peace there...