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...often without realizing it. This is particularly common among patients like Cheney, whose "ejection fraction," a measure of how efficiently the heart is pumping, is around 40%. Usually the problem occurs because some scar tissue in the heart muscle starts to interfere with the electrical signals that cause the organ to beat...
...With a personal fortune estimated at around $119 million, Ehrmann owns about 1,500 pieces of art. He has contributed $12 million toward building a contemporary art museum in Lyons, which will open in early 2003. Called L'Organe (after the medical term organ), it aims to be the first to make the Internet an organic part of a museum from the very beginning. Says Ehrmann, "Art belongs to all humanity...
...STARTED Cosmetic companies bought into the organ's healing power decades ago, but few advertise...
...Like any organ, the brain needs constant attention. Keep exercising your mental muscle by learning a new skill, doing a crossword puzzle or, like the nuns, playing card games and tutoring schoolchildren...
...that, says Goodheart, may help strengthen a weakened organ. Goodheart believes that muscles and organs are linked by the same invisible neuropathways and meridian lines tweaked by acupuncturists. It took Goodheart years to ferret out the connections: the shoulders' deltoids map to the lungs; glutei maximi in the butt to the prostate; and the psoas that run through the groin to kidneys...