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...because this is the future, if he can't go to Mars in person, he can pay Rekall Inc. to implant a memory in his mind so he'll think he went to Mars and had a terrific time...
...must implant democracy where dictatorship prevailed for decades," Kohl said, speaking through a translator. "But for this, too, we need a patnership with our American friends...
...pleasantries until passengers want to throttle him. A married couple debate whether to move to Mars -- as if it were the suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps they should visit Rekall Inc., a mind-travel company that offers "the memory of a lifetime": a microchip implant of images from a wonderful vacation. They could even buy someone else's memory. "Take a vacation from yourself," the salesman croons. "We call it the Ego Trip...
...Sciences (NAS). The report states that American contraceptive research has come to a virtual halt, causing the U.S. to fall far behind other countries in developing new techniques. Methods available overseas but not in the U.S. include an injection that provides two months of protection and a skin implant that can release a contraceptive hormone into the bloodstream for up to five years...
Seattle dentist Barney Clark became a household name in 1982 as the first patient to receive the Jarvik-7, the world's first artificial heart. Clark lived 112 days more, because of the polyurethane-and-metal pump. Five patients in all received the permanent implant; all died in less than two years. But the device helped buy time for 150 patients who relied on an implant until a heart transplant was possible. Last week the Food and Drug Administration stunned medical researchers by recalling the Jarvik heart, which is made by Symbion, a Tempe, Ariz., company...