Word: permanente
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Whatever the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 turns out to be in history's eyes, it was not easy to achieve. Though it passed with bipartisan support in the waning hours of the lame-duck session and is scheduled for the President's signature this week, it...
While they were at it, the computer scientists began creating a jargon of their own, sometimes described pejoratively as computerese, to talk to each other. Like the high priests of any new religion, these keepers of the computer faith like to rename familiar things (How else could a TV screen...
In Italy it is called la Pista Bulgara (the Bulgarian Trail), and at diplomatic receptions from London to Moscow the talk quickly turns to the Bulgarian Connection. Everyone in Europe, it seems, has become fascinated by an allegation that, if true, could profoundly undermine East-West relations: that a Turkish...
Mexico's durable one-party system emerged from the fratricidal Revolution of 1910, which toppled the 34-year rule of Dictator Porfirio Diaz. In the ensuing ten years, more than 1 million Mexicans died as one faction after another tried to wrest control of the country. Finally, to put...
Given these limitations, what is the role of the permanent artificial heart? "The best solution remains the heart transplant," insists Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the South African surgeon who pioneered that solution. Transplants have kept patients alive for up to 14 years. (In the U.S., some 500 people have received transplants...