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...that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew of other security accessories. Since 1996 the firm's Brazilian revenues have surged more than sevenfold, to $14.5 million last year. In November, O'Gara opened a new plant to nearly double output. How solid are the cars? "Nine of our customers were attacked last...
...Louisville, Kentucky, the diabetic with the battery-powered titanium-and-plastic heart was resting after they drained fluid from around the gizmo in his chest...
...Plastic surgeons must plan this stuff, because by this point, my looks were the least of my problems...
...patient has been identified only as a man in his 50s, a man who met all the FDA's qualifications for the procedure: He was at least 18 years old and of large enough build for his chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure...
Rashid's father was a set designer for Canadian TV who rearranged the family furniture every Sunday. So perhaps it was ordained that Karim would grow up to become one of the pioneers in non-cheesy plastic, making objects that have energy and personality but aren't wacky. He, like many of his generation, has championed the could-only-be-designed-with-computers blob. But his is not just a blob for its own sake. His Oh Chair is reminiscent of a pelvic girdle. His New Move glassware for German manufacturer Leonardo looks like a forest floor, with mushroom bowls...