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I was a research scientist on the National Federation of the Blind 2001 Everest Expedition that placed a team of climbers, including Erik, atop the highest point on Earth. While achieving the summit of Everest is certainly an amazing accomplishment even for a sighted climber, the true success lies in...
But for the viewer, the work's craft ancestry promotes a confidence in looking at it. Puryear's shapes come out of several parallel worlds of form, which, when prolonged, actually do meet. One is industrial--but "obsolete" industrial: the vigorous and noble shapes of what are now antique technologies...
The patient has been identified only as a man in his 50s, a man who met all the FDA's qualifications for the procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his...
The AbioCor runs on a tiny internal pump that spins about 10,000 times a minute, moving hydraulic fluid through a valve that alternately allows blood to be pumped to the lungs or the body. There is a small battery inside the device powering its control unit; that battery is...
Complications are inevitable with a heart this new and a man this sick, but as the week went on the AbioCor, whirring away at a steady 120 beats a minute (later, it will be adjusted to respond to the patient's level of activity) was outperforming expectations. By Tuesday morning...