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Getting power to the device still means going through the skin and thus providing a possible infection site, but researchers have found ways to keep the invasiveness to a minimum. The Jarvik 2000--a far more elegant successor to the Jarvik-7--runs power 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...
After the Clinton administration hands over the reigns to its successor early next year, Alvarez says she is unsure what her future will hold...
...most unsettling of the book's revelations is in the epilogue. Weisskopf and Schmidt show that even before Starr left, his aides drafted a prosecution memo and sample indictment of Clinton and last October began practicing arguments to make their case. Starr's successor, Robert Ray, has recently said he is considering pursuing that indictment of the President after he leaves office. There will be room, no doubt, for many more revisions of the Lewinsky story...
...crammed into overpopulated coastal cities. So, it is among the vulnerable and the susceptible that the next EPA administrator must make a mark on national environmental conscientiousness and global environmental conscience. The two presidential candidates will do well now to consider carefully the credentials of their choice for the successor to Browner...
Compared with that, getting Putin elected was a pushover. The operation began last August, Pavlovsky told TIME, when Boris Yeltsin named Putin Prime Minister and declared him his preferred successor. The strategists' first step was to craft a political party for Putin to lead. They managed that trick last fall, constructing the Unity Party just months before the nation's parliamentary elections. The group was almost a parody of a Russian political party, led by a popular but tongue-tied Cabinet minister and a totally nonverbal Olympic wrestler. But Unity swept into the Duma, or lower house, triggering a wave...