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...felt as if I’d given one of those Kremlin seven-hour speeches on the next five-year plan,” Knowles writes in an e-mail about the earlier review...
...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
...seven-hour lunch for 600? Why not, when you're legendary restaurateur ALICE WATERS, 57, of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and celebrating your 30th anniversary in business. Waters revolutionized the American way of eating with her emphasis on fresh, organically grown produce and unfussily prepared meat and fish with a Cali-Tuscan twist. If not for Waters, we'd still be wandering in that culinary wilderness between Salisbury steak TV dinners and French foo-foo food smothered in cream. Waters' anniversary meal cost $500 a head and featured lamb, spit roasted over oak and cherrywood fires, served with sauteed...
...what it took to make medical history. And by the end of the seven-hour implantation surgery, performed at Jewish Hospital in Louisville by Dr. Gray and Dr. Robert D. Dowling of the University of Louisville, he was very newsworthy indeed...
...three times more densely populated than neighboring India and seven times more jammed than China.) Don't be surprised if an enthusiastic Bangladeshi befriends you in the street and invites you home for tea and a meal. He will invariably ask for your address as a start to what he hopes will be an overseas friendship and, eventually, a ticket out. Many visitors soon discover Dhaka is a place they too want to escape. If that's the case, head for Kamalpur train station for a six- or seven-hour train trip to Chittagong and the south coast ($8 first...