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...crush and buy the local Stuckeybowl lanes. Today half the stressed-out skyscraper workers in Manhattan have a comparable escape fantasy, but Ed and its newly resonant theme of fleeing to the past debuted more than a year ago. And we have seen similar homecoming stories on Providence (L.A. plastic surgeon moves home, works in clinic), Judging Amy (big-city lawyer moves home, becomes a judge) and this fall's Crossing Jordan (medical examiner moves home, solves crimes with Dad), to name...
...that was before Tools got his robot heart--a miracle of medical miniaturization called the AbioCor. Unlike the first generation of artificial hearts--which were attached by tubes and wires to refrigerator-size power units--the softball-size, plastic-and-titanium AbioCor is entirely self-contained, save for a wireless battery pack strapped to the waist. On July 2, Tools became the first human...
...intravenous drugs. But those patients have always had to be tethered to an IV and drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According to its maker, the SynchroMed works better and requires much smaller doses...
Before Sept. 11, there was March 20, 1995. On a sunny spring morning, five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult entered the Tokyo subway and pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around...
...represented, what kind of work would be shown, how it would be displayed, etc. Our art shows in the past have mostly shown work done for VES classes by VES concentrators.” The very premise of STASH involves a much wider range of Harvard students: 120 plastic bags were handed out to a large sample of students, who were told to bring back “the most visually interesting” object they could find; the only restriction was for the object to fit into...