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...times, inside the patient's chest. He can see the top of the beating heart, the bulge of every rib and the outline of the artery he needs to reposition. As a dozen nurses, technicians and doctors stand motionless in the darkened operating room gazing at the overhead monitors, Wolf places his thumbs and forefingers into small controls inside the console. Then, moving his hands much as he would if he were actually holding the instruments, he shows the robot how to grab a piece of flesh with the forceps and begin peeling it away from the chest wall...
...hunch over computer screens searching for the smallest disturbance that will tip the delicate balance that is the nation's air traffic system into chaos. A real-time snapshot of the U.S. airspace (depicted about five feet high) shows the enormity of the task: up to 5,000 planes overhead at any one moment...
...felt bound by Supreme Court rulings that it is unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes couldn't directly support shoot-downs. To many countries, the whole idea of shooting unarmed planes out of the sky was so distasteful that they barred U.S. planes from flying overhead on tracking missions altogether. U.S. officials say Venezuela's refusal to grant overflight rights gobbles up 25% of the flight time of some drug-hunting planes that have to fly around the nation as a result. Says a dea planner involved in the debate: "We're supposed to export...
...awful air travel has become - crowded airports, crowded and overbooked planes, delayed flights, lousy service, awful food. Terrible. But the articles are talking about people in the air or in the airports, and not about the vastly greater numbers on the ground who are brutalized as the planes pass overhead. The solution to squalid air travel that experts propose is analogous to the fix (turn up the volume) when loud planes interrupt your television watching. All will be well if you build more runways, more airports, if you schedule more flights, and fling more profit-making, noise-making metal into...
...Thoke and Abeles turned that season around. In an encore of their extra-inning duel from the previous year, Thoke and Zitarelli battled to a scoreless tie through four innings, as rain clouds loomed overhead...