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...going in for the same procedure he had in March - a cardiac catheterization, for which doctors insert wires into a vein in his groin and thread them up into his heart. The wires are tipped with electrical sensors that give precise readings on the rhythm of the heart muscles "for the purpose of determining the vice president's risk of developing a persistent, abnormal heart rhythm," said Dr. Jonathan Samuel Reiner in a statement released by the White House...
...story about his life would involve sequences of just looking. It's almost magic the way Galambos packs in so much emotional action into a mere 76 pages while taking lots of time-outs for iced tea and sitting down. He uses the unique visual pacing of comix to insert moments that force us into Nathan's state of mind. At one point Nathan says to Jessica, "I'm sorry if you get bored, it seems that all we do is sit around." "No. It's not boring. Sometimes it's good just to sit," she replies...
Product placement may change TV's past too. Video-technology company Princeton Video Image has for years used digital imaging to insert virtual first-down lines (with corporate logos) in football games and completely photorealistic but nonexistent "signs" behind home plate at baseball games. Now it wants to move into reruns, with technology that can seamlessly insert 3-D objects into video footage--a Pepsi on a desktop, a Lexus at a curbside, a box of Tide on a countertop--where there was nothing before. PVI is negotiating to do placements in reruns of Law & Order and hopes to strike...
...court as a cast of witnesses describe the shadier side of what he and his defense lawyers insist is a legitimate business. John Givens, an admitted mobster turned government witness, recently told of how he once sliced off a man's ear and slit another's nostrils to insert lit cigars...
...look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;” etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there...