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...exclaims Dr. William Schuessler, a urological surgeon from San Antonio. The instrument sparking such enthusiasm is variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside the body through minute (1-cm-long or less) incisions. With the addition of a tiny telescopic lens, a miniature light source and a palm...
...election effort. With his hard-hitting attacks, linking Bush to everything from higher taxes and trade deficits to pornographic art, he is softening Bush up for the Democratic assault in the fall. Though he mostly confined himself to the ideological margins last week, Buchanan nonetheless serves as the convenient vessel into which voters dissatisfied with Bush's handling of the economy and other national affairs can pour their resentment. And with the unemployment level rising last month to 7.3%, the highest figure since 1985, discontent with the Administration seemed certain to grow in the immediate future. It is a measure...
...Clancy would love it: an ungainly ship with a state-of-the-art silent propulsion system that is virtually undetectable, even at speeds up to 115 m.p.h. Last month Japan launched the prototype. Christened the YAMATO (also the name of the imperial navy's World War II flagship), the vessel is the first in the world propelled by superconducting magnets that generate a ! powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to build a war machine...
...charges may seem fantastic, the sort of misinformation one typically finds only in The National Enquirer. Currently, however, those charges are being made in the pages of about 1400 respected newspapers nationwide--in the comic pages. The man making the accusation is Garry Trudeau, a noted cartoonist, and the vessel is "Doonesbury," Trudeau's famous (or infamous) comic strip...
...attention from captain or crew. Underneath it all is a 13,000-lb. winged keel, which can be moved by hydraulic power from a vertical down position to as much as a 25 degrees slant to either side. That and a two-ton water-ballast system greatly improve the vessel's stability...