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...through a fixed jack implanted behind the patient's ear. And Abiomed's AbioCor uses a small transmitter outside the skin to beam radio waves for conversion to electricity inside. Designers have also found ingenious ways to have their hearts do the actual pumping: the AbioCor is essentially a sphere within a sphere, with the inner ball scuttling back and forth...
...violence constitute a problem that penetrates without compunction the ivy walls surrounding our own campus. Both enduring and watching others endure the turmoil of such violence is already a devastatingly painful experience; without the rights guaranteed by VAWA, the process of seeking reparations for our peers in the public sphere can be almost unbearable...
...college, it got worse. Science taught that Biblical stories run counter to the laws of the universe. History taught that every Christian doctrine was as sure of itself as the one I was raised in--how could I say for sure mine was right? In my private sphere of belief, secularization seemed as unwelcome and inevitable as a New Kids reunion tour. Christianity was not a conviction but a stage: An infant's pacifier to be exchanged inevitably for the pureed beets of intellectual agnosticism and perhaps the smashed-up crackers of pretending to understand Zen. And so, after this...
...inception and dissolution of a gay relationship in which he was involved. The photographs-ranging from self-portraits, portraits of his former boyfriend and intimate moments between the two-document the vicissitudes of sex and love. Sheng afforded his audience the opportunity to enter a world rarely seen, a sphere of emotional fragility and ecstasy shared between two men tangled in a relationship too unconventional and unacceptable for many. In one photograph, the two share a private kiss in a hotel room; in another, Sheng, teary-eyed, faces the camera in the frail and final moments following the break...
...grows ups in a matter of seconds. In fact, each little character episode speeds through the film, providing transitions before quickly returning to the center of attention: Madonna and Everett sparring, making up, or simply conversing. It is as if the audience has secretly slipped into their private sphere and is now covertly spying on what their personal off-screen lives must be like. Schlesinger appears more comfortable towards the end of the film, when the movie makes an irreversible turn from comedy to drama. This dramatic shift of tone in the last third of the film follows the arrival...