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Cheney's battery should last from five to eight years, depending on use. If it runs out, doctors can replace it with minor surgery...
...Maybe so, but proving cause and effect has been difficult. Those who develop DVT are likely to have a predisposition to do so (see box), and the condition itself can be almost impossible to track. Minor cases may produce no symptoms, while major complications like pulmonary embolisms can show up weeks after the initial clotting. Immobility may play a role, but to some experts the idea of a special link between aircraft and thrombosis simply isn't plausible: last year in Britain, a House of Lords report focusing on air travel and health issues tied DVT to sitting...
...fact, it was petrol - rationed and costly in late-'50s England - that motivated the old British Motor Corp. (BMC) to develop the first Mini. Its popularity among the minor royals and pop stars in Swinging '60s London gave the Mini cachet; at its peak it was among Britain's best-selling cars. "It was classy because it was classless, stylish because it wasn't styled," says Brian...
...worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind the bushies' upsurge. Good stuff...
...President Bush also expressed concern. His own antitrust regulators at the Justice Department let the G.E.-Honeywell marriage - a very neatly matched one-stop-shopping combination of jetliner engines and jetliner avionics that scared G.E.'s European competitors - slide through with only minor alterations. Then head euro-trustbuster Mario Monti and his commission had to go and mess it all up for reasons that struck American backers of American business interests (like Rockefeller and Bush) as a little too, well, nationalistic...