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Over Father's Day weekend, Cheney strapped on a Holter monitor--basically a portable ECG machine--to produce a 34-hr.-long recording of his heartbeat. The monitor revealed four distinct episodes, each lasting just a second or two, in which the ventricles of his heart beat too fast. The situation is dangerous only if it becomes permanent. "The heart doesn't actually stop," says Dr. Eric Prystowsky, president of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. "But it beats so fast that no blood can flow through its chambers." Unless a normal rhythm is re-established, death follows...
...programmed to strip e-mail addresses from your address book. Back Orifice, a notorious piece of software created a few years ago by a hacking group called Cult of the Dead Cow, takes over a host computer completely. Among its privacy-invading features: it can dig up passwords and monitor every keystroke typed into...
...Databank. About the size and shape of an anchovy, the Magic-I holds 120 names and phone numbers, plus a calendar and an alarm clock (with times for 100 cities worldwide). You don't even need cables to upload data to it--it reads the information straight off your monitor screen. Aston Martin sold separately...
...Despite Tung's role as Hong Kong's top representative, when it comes to matters on which Beijing has pronounced judgment, he consistently toes the party line. In his statement, he said Hong Kong does not need new legislation "at this point" but added: "We must monitor Falun Gong very carefully." Once again, Tung seems to think patriotic behavior means echoing the wishes of China's President Jiang Zemin, who wants Falun Gong quashed. The anticult arguments that Tung and his senior officials have advanced are forced and fallacious. Tung has said the self-immolation in Tiananmen Square of "cultists...
...model the V.P. received - a Medtronic Gem III DR - is a miracle of medical miniaturization, a fully automated, battery-powered, custom-programmed combination pacemaker and defibrillator that can monitor the complex rhythms of the heart and correct any abnormalities it discovers with carefully measured pulses of electricity...