Word: instrumentality
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...then again, it could have been the other way around, argues MacPhee, who believes disease offers a more credible instrument of decline. He suspects that some disease-causing microbe--one to which New World organisms lacked resistance--tagged along with the Stone Age hunters who first ventured into the New World. Once again this pathogen (which could have been carried by dogs or vermin) need not have killed every single animal to have set the wheels of extinction in motion. During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest...
...McVeigh, saying, "As the 12 jurors believe the verdict (against McVeigh) is justified under all circumstances and executed their moral judgment as a conscience of the community, whatever in time may be discovered about the possible involvement of others does not change the fact that Timothy McVeigh was the instrument of death and destruction...
...hour later, several inches of the artery are dangling from the chest. While Michler and his team have the go-ahead from the FDA to attach the artery robotically to the beating heart, Michler's team is waiting for a better instrument to stabilize a small area on the heart so they can more precisely attach the artery. But even though they will finish the job by hand today, there's no need for a giant incision. Instead, they will work between the ribs in a hole no wider than a tennis ball to reattach the artery. About five hours...
...million da Vinci robot, made by Intuitive Surgical, is a modern twist on an older technique known as "keyhole" surgery, in which surgeons use elongated chopstick-like tools teamed with a tiny camera to work inside the body. But "keyhole" surgery is counterintuitive: to move the instrument's tip to the left, the surgeon has to push the handle to the right - and vice versa. Despite the advantages to the patient, only about one-quarter of the 15 million operations performed each year in the U.S. are done this way. The da Vinci takes the tools out of the surgeon...
...disappeared, but it has dimmed. In "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz," a standard reference, Crosby gets less space than his younger brother Bob, who fronted a Dixieland band in the '30s and beyond, and who may be the only bandleader of the time who could not play an instrument. Bing is hardly to be seen in Ken Burns' 19-hour documentary "Jazz," though he employed many jazz masters on his records and radio shows, and teamed with Louis Armstrong more often than any star except Bob Hope. Ask people over 40 to describe Crosby in a few words...