Word: performancy
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DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, Calif. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, a surgical mentor to Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, pressed on as others were giving up. With an impressive Stanford University team, he found ways to use smaller doses of toxic antirejection drugs; was an early proponent of a safer alternative, cyclosporine; and dramatically improved transplant survival rates...
...Should it fail to enjoy the confidence of the majority of the House, it has to hold a general election.” In fact, in some parliamentary systems, prime ministers have purposely staged no-confidence votes with the intention of losing, on the assumption that their party will perform well in the subsequent election. In 1993, for example, U.K. Prime Minister John Major used a confidence motion to his advantage when the House of Commons was considering the Maastricht Treaty, the agreement that eventually established the European Union. After Major’s opponents defeated a motion to ratify...
...opening The hot gossip was that Madonna had demanded to open the show, thus bumping Mariah Carey to the second hour. So when the curtain rises we get... cartoon characters? Gorillaz made one of the best albums of 2005, but singer Damon Albarn's insistence that the band perform as its cartoon alter egos is annoying even when there aren't a few million people watching. On top of that, one of the cartoons actually checked his watch during the performance, mimicking the few remaining viewers. When Madonna finally did rise up from a hole in the stage...
...mail. “Ever increasing usage loads on the FAS e-mail systems...have severely challenged these systems.” In addition to excessive traffic, the network was also plagued by attacks from a virus called Denial of Service, which Levine said impedes e-mail system performance. The dual stressors combined to form a perfect storm that washed out e-mail access for many students and faculty. Harvard’s IT staff is “working literally around the clock” to calm the electronic waters, according to Levine. While service will continue to improve...
...wiretaps were performed without obtaining the warrants beforehand required by the law that governs eavesdropping on foreign agents, in part, because the process is "cumbersome and burdensome," said Gonzales. Convinced that it wasn't necessary, the Bush Administration did not ask Congress to streamline the procedures to perform these wiretaps. Senators cited five recent examples when changes in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were passed at the request of the White House. When asked, Gonzales argued, it wasn't necessary because the President's constitutionally granted powers, as well as the specific wartime authority granted after 9/11, allow...