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...Korea has moved to thaw relations with South Korea. For that matter, the State Department has announced it will no longer use the term rogue state and instead will substitute the more benign description "state of concern." In a new book, Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy, Robert S. Litwak, a former National Security Council staff member, argues that the term distorts policymaking by demonizing whole countries. Just a handful of nations make up the nuclear club, and these aspiring members are under constant scrutiny. "The ballistic-missile threat is confined, limited and changing relatively slowly," argues Joseph Cirincione, director...
...Robert S. Litwak and his colleagues at Mount Sinai designed the new system to meet two requirements: 1) it had to relieve the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, of as much as three-quarters of its work load, and 2) it had to remain in place in case it should be needed again. The system they devised is installed while the patient is still hooked up to the heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of these organs during open-heart surgery. First Litwak and his team insert two cannulae, or tubes, of flexible silicone...
...make reinstallation easy, silicone plugs were inserted in the openings of the tubes; a flap of skin was closed over the ends. Litwak's first patient and four subsequent ones are now home recovering from their operations, their hearts working at full capacity. Furthermore, they may be better protected than most heart patients against a relapse. If their hearts need some help in the future, all Litwak should have to do is make a simple skin incision and reconnect the pump. The plumbing is still in place...
...Litwak started drawing pictures in crayon, later turned to oils because, he says, "the public is not used yet to crayon work...
...oils are less convenient for Litwak: his landlady in Brooklyn hates the smell of turpentine, and refuses to let him paint with the windows shut. Litwak's solution is simply to sketch his compositions on canvas in the winter, and color them in when summer comes and the windows can be left open...