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...Cheney's heart rate slows to fewer than 40 or 50 beats per minute, for example, the Gem III DR's pacemaker function will speed it up with a series of short bursts of about 5 volts each. If his heart starts pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast--more than 200 beats per minute--Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...
Summers also spent a portion of his first week wading through the materials pertaining to the searches for two vacant high level positions, provost and vice president for government, community, and public affairs—both of which were vacated the day before Summers arrived...
...presently stands, Harvard would be exempted from paying taxes on any portion of the property used as part of the educational mission of the University...
...caving into Nimbyism in Florida, the Bush administration has decimated its own energy plan," said Rep. David Vitter, (R-La.) "I think this really just shuts down the opportunity to do anything productive to reduce our dependence on foreign oil." Oil companies are particularly disappointed to lose a "stovepipe" portion of the area that extended straight up toward Mobile and the tip of the Florida panhandle, thought to contain rich natural-gas deposits in shallow water...
...Cheney's heart rate slows to fewer than 40 or 50 beats per minute, for example, the Gem III DR's pacemaker function will speed it up with a series of short bursts of about 5 volts each. If his heart starts pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast - more than 200 beats per minute - Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...