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...small microphone is turned on, and a middle-aged man with a face creased with grief began chanting a mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...
...mail. Next, Bruce J. Biller and Debra S. Poaster, both UHS physicians, arrived at the scene and continued O’Brien’s CPR while administering an automated external defibrillator. The doctors shocked the professor four times before they were able to quell the arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, and restore his heart to normal. The University has defibrillators in various areas on campus, ranging from UHS to the Malkin Athletic Center, that were donated by the Kadan Foundation, said UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59. The Kadan Foundation was started by a group...
...North Korea will unleash a sort of nuclear domino effect--with one country after another scrambling to get nukes. Take, for example, the nonnuclear countries in East Asia closest to North Korea: South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. All are wealthy, technologically sophisticated countries that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. (South Korea had a clandestine nuclear-arms program in the mid-1970s.) But all reside snugly under the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella--any attack by Pyongyang would bring the full destructive force of the U.S. military in response. And last week all swore off any notion that North Korea...
...considerable achievement, particularly in the ways it permits authentic savagery to break through the leafy languidness of suburban life, powerfully reinforcing the notion that no matter how comfortable people believe they are, violence--sometimes open, sometimes present as a restless quirk of the mind--is never more than a heartbeat away...
...hall toward the stage came a gentle giant of a man, his 1.9-m bulk wrapped around a hollowed tree trunk into which he breathed. Sculthorpe's music at once expanded, evoking the spaciousness and soaring skies of the Australian Outback; William Barton's didgeridoo was the heartbeat...