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...incision in the patient's groin, the surgeon threaded a 7-in. assembly made of a tube connected to a miniature, propeller-like pump through the patient's arteries and into his left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart. The stainless-steel pump, driven by a slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports-car engine -- the pump drew a steady stream of blood out of the chamber and into the aorta, the main vessel...
...applies to very few people. According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, the survival rate for 4,200 AIDS patients whose condition was diagnosed between late 1978 and 1983 is 2% to 5%, nearly all of them male homosexuals who contracted the disease through sexual contact. Such slender evidence is often taken as proof by desperate members of the homosexual community that they can overcome AIDS. "When people ask me what I do for a living," says Michael Callen, 33, a New York City musician who was discovered to have AIDS almost six years ago, "I say, 'Surviving...
...Fine Bob. The girls all look great. I'm betting that Cindy will be one of the finalists. She has a pretty face, a slender body and long legs. I caught a glimpse of her whole right breast a while ago and it looked great. Large and firm. Back...
...other woman is a tall, slender young spartan in a loose, kimono-like black jacket and pants, her long, lank brown hair pulled back severely, her strong Slavic features firmly set in contemplation of the coming battle. No makeup or jewelry lends even a hint of frivolity to her appearance as she wraps one large hand around the neck of her Strad, tucks it confidently under her chin and prepares to stare down the ghost of Paganini. For Viktoria Mullova, there are no frills in concert, just her, the night and the music. & "I work better under pressure," she says...
Dukakis also celebrated a narrow victory over Jackson in the Colorado caucuses, which were marked by a slow and controversial count. Together, Wisconsin and Colorado added to his slender lead in the competition for delegates to the Democratic National Convention...