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...temperature to less than 63[degrees]F to prevent neurological damage during the critical period after her own heart was removed and before her new, golf ball-size heart was in place. Not until the patient reached this state of suspended animation was it safe to make the surgical swap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HER TINY HEART | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...have dispensed with all that tired, wetware chitchat. Our Thinking Tags could have negotiated any fruitful common ground. These tags, the brainchildren of Borovoy and a team of researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, are little wearable computers that can seek out other "smart" tags in a room and swap data. In that way, one can, upon approaching a stranger at a crowded, Thinking Tag-equipped conference, immediately know whether it's worth the brain cycles to attempt social intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOY MEETS BADGE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Spend a few minutes analyzing Hurwitz and it's easy to see why he doesn't care. As it happens, he is neck deep in U.S. claims resulting from the $1.6 billion collapse of a Texas savings and loan he controlled. There was talk of a "debt-for-nature" swap involving Hurwitz' redwoods and the litigation, but banking regulators wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGHTING FOR THE FORESTS | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...Disney Co. to run the Hilton Hotel Corp. in February, he vowed to make Hilton a leader of the $20 billion U.S. gaming industry. Bollenbach hit the jackpot with just one roll of the dice last week, when Hilton agreed to acquire Bally Entertainment in a $2 billion stock swap that creates the world's largest casino company. "Big guys win in any consolidating industry," Bollenbach says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch, Jun. 17, 1996 | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...Swap rooms were allocated using lotteries of interested men and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Solidify Relationship | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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