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Moore, a pioneer in the field of surgery who oversaw the first successful human organ transplant, died last Saturday of heart failure...
That's why it's such good news to hear that another type of mechanical pump, called a left ventricular assist device, may be a viable alternative. Instead of replacing the heart entirely, the lvad attaches to the organ's left main chamber, boosting its output. The pump is twice as likely as drugs to keep patients alive after one year, according to a study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting...
Despite the brilliance of Kissin’s playing later in the evening, the recital got off to a somewhat shaky start with Bach’s Toccata in C Major, BWV 564, originally for organ but transcribed for solo piano by Ferrucio Busoni. This is perhaps the closest we will ever get to hearing Kissin play Bach, and one could hear why he has not made unadulterated Bach a part of his performing repertoire. He is clearly most at home with the romantics, and even this romanticized version of Bach felt awkward and rigid. The opening prelude is marked...
...around the browned surface, pulling and leaping and creating a tangled web. The lines, as it turns out, are no product of innocence, but are the result of Fuss’ experimentation with the chemical interaction of rabbit intestines with photographic paper. The ultimate in worldliness—an organ that facilitates surviva—transforms into illusion, abstraction on a photographic surface...
...News coverage in China's communist party organ The People's Daily carries a note of neutrality. CNN stories compete for attention in the lineup with dispatches from the Afghan Islamic Press, while the main story concerns China's own humanitarian relief efforts on behalf of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. But a commentaryon how recent events have changed U.S.-China relations is decidedly sanguine about backing Washington. The piece enthuses that last weekend's APEC summit in Shanghai showed that "the U.S.-China relationship has acquired a more extensive and stable foundation and will step into a new stage notably...