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...medical history: in the space of four days his life had been sustained by four different hearts (including his own). Throughout the marathon medical battle the big concern was time. When Creighton's heart failed on Wednesday, he was put on a heart-lung machine, a device used to pump and oxygenate blood during heart surgery. The machine could be used safely for only three or four hours before causing serious damage to blood cells and ultimately to vital organs...
...team. By then, Creighton had been on the heart-lung machine for nearly six hours. Says Vaughn, the choice was clear: "Either we try the artificial heart or we turn off the machine and tell Creighton's mother that her son is dead." After three hours of surgery, the pump was in place...
...like that anymore. Five players, running up and down the court. Sure, no one can jam, but you do see behind-the-back passes, double-pump dipsy do shots and dead-eyed 20 footers...
...officials decline to commit themselves to anything beyond a reworking of Cabot's dilapidated structure, beginning with Briggs Hall this summer. Before authorizing a new set of dining halls and a major overhaul of North. Harvard wants more time to pump the hands of potential donors, who could ease the way towards a more attractive Quad. But thus far, officials say, there's been no response to Harvard's fundraising overtures, which reportedly includes an offer to rename North in exchange for a cool $5 million...
...victory in last summer's Olympics, Huffy bicycles were a big winner too. The largest U.S. bikemaker, Huffy had invested two years and more than $600,000 to design and build the special cycles that Hegg and Carpenter-Phinney rode. Now Huffy is using its Olympic achievement to pump up Christmas sales. "I don't think anyone envisioned our success from the Olympics," says Huffy President Harry Shaw III. "A year ago, people thought we were crazy...