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...Represents the United States of Dyslexia b) Is Jasper Johns' greatest artistic leap in 40 years c) Was hanging from the balcony on the night Abe Lincoln was killed d) Was Strom Thurmond's swaddling cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 16, 2001 | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...discussion of trade policy is, of course, tinged by the grim knowledge that the 2002 House elections get closer by the day. That fact that tends to weigh down members who might otherwise take a leap in favor of free trade. According to people like James Morgan, chairman of Applied Materials, who is scheduled to meet with the President Wednesday, the public needs to be told that trade is nearly surefire a way to buck up the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Trade Comes to the White House, Again | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...AbioCor, made by Abiomed of Danvers, Mass. It is the second type of totally artificial heart to be tested in people - the Jarvik-7, you may recall, was implanted in patient Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982 - but it is a great leap forward. The Jarvik-7 was air-driven, which meant that tubes had to connect huge compressors to the device. Mobility was impossible; infection and complications were inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: The Artificial Heart Recipient | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...current talks being encouraged by the U.S. involve constitutional changes to accord the Albanian minority greater rights in Macedonia. But having so successfully determined the agenda through their insurgency, it takes a substantial leap of faith (and blindness to the region's recent history) to imagine that the hard men in the hills will simply turn in their Kalashnikovs when the lawyers in Skopje have finessed constitutional changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrillas' Shadow Hovers Over Macedonia Peace Efforts | 7/5/2001 | See Source »

...recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court for other conservative jurists, such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. If the 39- year-old Estrada made that leap several years later, Democrats realize he'd be on the High Court for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Judges, Washington Gets Ready to Rumble | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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