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...Less than enthralling. I am not a captious man, but this wine’s heavy nose was so striking, the experience was almost enervating. The bouquet possesses an unsteady, if protean structure: alternating undertones of honey and pencil lead emanate. Though not excessively rustic per se, I sense a sour, dense, deep tannin with a persistent, yet subtle, inner, unpalatably concentrated fruitiness. It leaves an unpleasant emptiness. In a sense, the finish is a bit jejune...
...make themselves heard, life won't get any easier. Someday, the labels hope, consumers will walk up to Web-enabled kiosks in convenience stores and airport terminals, punch in a credit-card number and instantly download two new Mariah Carey songs onto a cassette the size of a pencil tip. When that happens, who's going to bother trawling through thousands of MP3s for the next Fisher? That's why, sitting at a Melrose Avenue cafe early this year, Fisher and Wasserman seemed more relieved than elated. There are now at least 1 million songs available for download on MP3.com...
...scan at a local hospital confirmed Lorri's battlefield diagnosis. Not only had the pencil pierced Nathan's heart, but it had penetrated a valve. He would need open-heart surgery--which meant Nathan had to be airlifted to the nearest cardiac surgeon and heart-lung machine, in Great Falls, 100 miles away...
That's not all: If the pencil had taken a slightly different trajectory, it could have destroyed far more of the heart's blood-pumping machinery. And it just missed an artery in Nathan's chest that could have bled enough to send the boy into shock. "As it was," says Williams, "there couldn't have been more than a thimbleful of blood in the pericardium [the membrane surrounding the heart]. He needed no transfusion, which is fairly unusual for a child undergoing heart surgery...
Without such complications, the operation was straightforward. "We were at fairly close quarters, trying not to disturb the pencil and aggravate the injury," says Williams. But there was no infection, no contamination from pencil lead--and no permanent damage. Indeed, by last Saturday, less than three weeks after his open-heart surgery, Nathan was itching to get out of the house. "I want to go back to school," he told TIME. And parents who used to warn kids of the dangers posed to eyes by various sharp objects now have, for the foreseeable future, a new and even more frightening...