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...housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down so much of public education...
While so far only this bypass procedure has received the FDA's blessing, trials are under way to robotically repair the heart's valves, place pacemaker wires and stabilize irregular heartbeats. In Canada, a rival system from Computer Motion in Santa Barbara, Calif., is being tested for fetal-heart surgery. Douglas Boyd, who heads the National Center for Advanced Surgery and Robotics in London, Ont., believes that robots' minimally invasive techniques could vastly improve fetal surgery's current 90% failure rate, which he says is primarily a result of the trauma placed on the womb by traditional surgical techniques. "Robots...
...study, conducted by Dr. G. Michael Summer, involved the USS Frank Cable, a repair vessel based in Guam. Summer, who was the medical officer aboard the ship from 1996 to 1998. His research found that over a six-month period during his service aboard the Cable, "female crew members accounted for 72 percent of the total visits [to the ship's sick bay] while constituting only 22 percent of the crew...
...Lausanne's Palace Hotel, where I.O.C. members traditionally repair after a hard day of deliberations, it's more difficult than ever to count votes. The I.O.C. is not quite the old boys' club it used to be. More than 20 younger men and women, including active athletes elected by their peers, are now among the 122 members. No one is sure how they will vote. Regional groupings-East Asians, French-speaking Africans-once a key factor, are less likely to vote as a block. The 57 European members are also divided. The only sure thing is that once the I.O.C...
...looking for compounds that will rewire tumor cells so they will know when it's time to go. The research is still in its early stages, but scientists in several labs have started looking at a group of enzymes called caspaces; inhibiting these enzymes disrupts the process of DNA repair that occurs each time a cell divides...