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...given him only 30 days to live. Tools opted to have the device, the AbioCor, implanted as part of a federal clinical trial at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. Surgeons Robert Dowling and Laman Gray are pleased with his progress and hope to release Tools after he regains about 30 lbs. Until then, no vigorous activity--which means Tools must keep press conferences to twice a week...
...Kursk is 377 ft. below the surface. Salvagers have calculated that the submerged vessel weighs more than 21 million lbs. The water temperature hovers just above freezing. While the salvage concept is simple--attach some cables and pull up the sub--the challenges are formidable...
...field leader, now offers so-called semi-ruggeds. The Toughbook 72, introduced last fall with a Pentium III 700-MHz processor, is water-resistant, can survive a 1-ft. drop onto concrete and sells for $2,700. The Toughbook 37 Ultra-Slim--just 1 in. thick and 4.4 lbs.--is around $2,000. Ruggednotebooks' XE-620 runs about $3,000. Other companies in the space: Melard, Itronix and Dolch...
...greatest benefits occurred among test subjects who were physically active at least 30 minutes a day five days a week and who lost between 5% and 7% of their body weight, or an average of 15 lbs. Most chose walking as their preferred form of exercise. They also cut back on their total caloric intake and the amount of fat they ate. The goal was to consume 25% of calories from fat (compared with 30% to 35% in the average American's diet). For someone who eats 1,500 calories a day, that translates to 42 grams of fat. (Chomp...
Dennis introduced me to Grave Digger, which weighs 10,400 lbs., has 1,400 horsepower and gets five gallons to the mile. This is the manliest paragraph I will ever write...