Word: instrumentality
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...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...
...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...
...Alexandria, Va., recently wrapped up a yearlong, $6 million mission to help organize and improve the Colombian military. That has made some professional U.S. soldiers itchy. "The employment of private corporations to provide military assistance, specifically the training of other nations' armies to fight wars, should not be an instrument of U.S. foreign policy," an Army colonel wrote in 1998. "The military profession should remain a monopoly of the state...
...once male-dominated musical form offers a powerful means of expression. But the groups, which have doubled in the past five years, are also attracting executives, health professionals and schoolchildren. The most popular drums are the Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together in a trusting way they often have never known before...
...Years Preschoolers are acting out fantasies and may become interested in playing an instrument...