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...palmtop computers now allows doctors like Bayne to take their healing arts out of the hospital and onto the road. The result: fully functional EKG machines no bigger than a box of chocolates; blood-sample analyzers no larger than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into...
...Graham picked Jones up at 10:30 p.m. for what she thought was a date. Zamora lurked in the trunk, tilting the rear seat forward just enough to see Graham behind the wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were...
...California, recalls arriving at Harvard from Dixon, Illinois, accompanied by his mother. "There were marijuana clouds over Harvard Square and all these protesters with long hair, and then we see this big, burly, clean-cut guy wearing a blue work shirt and smiling," Carnutte said. "He picked up my trunk locker on his back and carried it up four flights of stairs to my room and said he was going to take care of me. I felt a lot better about Harvard...
...Sometimes I'll spasm while they turn me. The effect of a spasm, the tension of it, goes straight to my neck. It stiffens like a tree trunk. If I'm awake, I'll ask the nurse to give me a soft-tissue massage, which goes deep into the muscles. I have to take about 12 kinds of pills plus Metamucil. Pills to help control the spasms. Pills to prevent infection in the stool...
...slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...