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...much of recorded history, many doctors saw the human heart as the inscrutable, throbbing seat of the soul, an agent too delicate to meddle with. After a few incremental advances, that changed on a wide scale with World War II, when massive carnage forced military doctors to experiment with anesthesia and the other elements of modern surgery. Dr. Dwight Harken, a young Army surgeon, managed to remove shrapnel and bullets from some 130 soldiers' chests without killing one. Buoyed by such successes, in the postwar years surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that...
When the sixth round ended, Manny Pacquiao did a half-pirouette toward his corner, raised his eyebrows like a happy emoticon and beamed a smile that couldn't be hidden by all the blood in his mouthpiece. Everyone who saw it knew that he knew at that moment that he was going to win the fight. Not that his partisans had any doubt. The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas roared like never before. "Let's go, Manny!" reverberated again and again as the crowd demanded that their champion finish off his opponent and win glory for the Philippines...
...knocked down Cotto in the third and fourth rounds, even as the Puerto Rican had traded tough blows to the head and body with Pacquiao throughout the early going. By the end of the sixth round, however, after Pacquiao's punches came at him from unexpected places, Cotto saw his power diminish. His defenses came down and his face became the recipient of so many blows that his handsome mug was unrecognizably swollen by the time the fight was over. Cotto spent the last couple of rounds dancing away from Pacquiao, who at times simply dropped his arms in frustration...
Nevertheless, the ferocity of most of the fight lived up to its promise, with Cotto valiantly persevering into the final round even though his corner had advised him to throw in the towel at the end of the 11th. And it was a celebration for Vegas, which saw its large community of immigrant Filipinos buoyed by hundreds of others who flew in from the Philippines to cheer on their champ. The city had been abuzz with Pacquiao's presence the week before the fight. Pacman, as he is called by his fans, is a crossover hit. In the world...
Then D’Asaro saw the record time for crawling the mile: 23 minutes and 45 seconds. Realizing that crawling is “not a popular sport,” D’Asaro decided that this was the record she wanted to break...