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...this sick, but as the week went on the AbioCor, whirring away at a steady 120 beats a minute (later, it will be adjusted to respond to the patient's level of activity) was outperforming expectations. By Tuesday morning - even after a second, two-hour operation to repair a loose stitch - it had already cleared the patient's lungs of fluid...
...people like Mark and Mary Jane O'Hara of Eugene, Ore. In February they had the local fire department burn their home to the ground after doctors attributed the family's chronic nosebleeds, flulike symptoms and severe headaches to mold. The O'Haras figured it would cost more to repair the house than to rebuild it from scratch. Others, like Carol Cherry of Hazlet, N.J., can't afford the $5,000-to-$10,000 retainer that lawyers often require to take on a mold case. Stranded in her moldy home, Cherry says, "I can't have guests over...
...Mostly, though, Changoiwala still goes to the office because he is a proud man who cannot accept the prevailing wisdom: the world he has known for more than six decades has been shattered beyond repair. "He is in a state of absolute shock, maybe even denial," says son-in-law Sandeep Harlalka. "It will take him some time to face the truth and start thinking about the future." The truth is that Changoiwala has little money to invest and even less work to do. His firm is deathly ill and his relatives are looking for jobs elsewhere: a daughter...
...father, a women's wear merchant, was part of a tiny and somewhat beleaguered Jewish community. Anomalously armed with a degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Tech, he went to New York in 1946 with the intention of becoming a theater director. A daytime job as a TV repair man supported his night classes in English literature at Columbia University. "My partner and I used to find excuses to fix sets in good restaurants so we could get free meals from the waiters," he says...
...closed Tsurphu to visitors and arrested the devout. This February, the U.S. State Department reported that since the Karmapa's departure, "a large number of monks and nuns remain detained or imprisoned." The monastery is now open again. (The official Chinese explanation for shutting it: the peeling frescoes needed repair.) But the thousands of visitors who made the journey to be blessed by a young Karmapa and give alms to the poor have vanished, along with the legions of spies and informers who monitored the monastery for the seven years he was in residence...