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...impact is not the same as no impact. To release gas from a coal bed, each well must pump out large quantities of water--about 12,000 gal. a day--much of which has too high a sodium content to be used on the land. This water has to be stored in the large reservoirs that now punctuate the landscape. And the gas companies need pipes, roads, compressor stations and power lines to pump the gas out of the ground and into pipelines that run to Denver and Chicago. "It's a very complex mess, basically, and it is changing...
...handful of patients who were given artificial hearts in the 1980s. Each of them was tethered to a large external compressor that powered the device through tubes into the body. The first recipient, a retired dentist named Barney Clark, developed serious infections that ravaged his body. The artificial pump also triggered a lot of blood clots. The long, lingering death of one man in particular, William Schroeder, who was kept alive for 620 days with much of his brain destroyed, soured many physicians and the public on the artificial heart's long-term prospects...
...Women’s Final Four festivities, which include the national semifinals and championship at the Fleet Center, a three-day fan festival and a national coaches meeting, are expected to pump an estimated $25 million into the host city’s economy...
...that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. In the U.S., yoga now straddles the continent?from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each...
...AbioCor runs on a tiny internal pump that spins about 10,000 times a minute, moving hydraulic fluid through a valve that alternately allows blood to be pumped to the lungs or the body. There is a small battery inside the device powering its control unit; that battery is in turn powered by an external battery pack (worn on the belt or suspenders) that transfers energy across the skin, without any connections. Without wires. Without tubes...