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...another day. "It's just amazing," said nurse Anne Taylor, standing in the donors' line. "There'll be a three- or four-hour wait, and just look at all of these people standing here. They can't scare us." Bellevue hospital had so many donors, it ran out of plastic bags...
...awesomeness of the sight once you're inside. The gardens, the ornamental fountains. The minarets, the enormous marble arches. It is big enough, still white enough, as it stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. But as soon as this impression passes, the details settle in. Plastic bottles litter the lawns; the canals are dirty; guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and in places have fallen off. In the basement, the graves of the Emperor and his beloved are off limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh...
...which devised a common markup language for Internet use. DIED. JUAN MUNOZ, 48, internationally acclaimed Spanish figurative sculptor known for creating large architectural installations; of a heart attack, in Ibiza, Spain. Mu?oz was at the height of his career: last year he won Spain's national award for the plastic arts. And in June the Tate Modern in London unveiled his latest work, Double Bind, which was commissioned for the museum's largest exhibition hall. The massive structure incorporates elevators that rise and fall through a patterned floor, beneath which miniature human figures are visible. DIED. FRANCISCO ("PACO") RABAL...
ROBERT TOOLS woke up one day and discovered he had lost his heart. In its place was a buzzing 4-lb., grapefruit-size plastic-and-titanium lump. Nevertheless, Tools was happy to be able to wake up at all. His real heart had failed him, and he had become the first person to receive a fully contained mechanical heart. The retired tech librarian, 59, from Franklin, Ky., revealed his identity and addressed the media last week--two months after doctors had given him only 30 days to live. Tools opted to have the device, the AbioCor, implanted as part...
...rapid-L, a 6-m by 2-m reactor designed for moon colonies, could eventually be used to light up individual office buildings and apartment blocks. Given Japan's nuclear safety record, that can only be considered a very hot appliance. TINY TAURUS Osaka University researchers have sculpted a plastic bull the size of a red blood cell, a laser technique that may lead to mite-sized machines. It's nice to see bullishness amid Japan's economic paralysis?even on a microscopic scale...