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...inscrutable, throbbing seat of the soul, an agent too delicate to meddle with. After a few incremental advances, that changed on a wide scale with World War II, when massive carnage forced military doctors to experiment with anesthesia and the other elements of modern surgery. Dr. Dwight Harken, a young Army surgeon, managed to remove shrapnel and bullets from some 130 soldiers' chests without killing one. Buoyed by such successes, in the postwar years surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that lasted longer than four minutes, because the interruption in circulation caused brain...
Ultimately, ordinary Greeks will make their political judgment based on both the outbreak of anarchist violence and the actions of the government. Thus far, apart from the still unclear circumstances of the Dec. 6 fatal shooting, the police have mostly taken defensive tactics. But the protests, which harken back to the anti-globalization mix of violence and civil disobedience of Seattle in 1999 and Genoa in 2001, don't appear to be ending any time soon. Protesters say the use of online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have helped organize street demonstrations, as well as the more high...
...Magick” and “Cobwebs” bring the listener back to the days of Adams’ “Demolition,” while others like “Natural Ghost” or “Sink Ships” harken back to Whiskeytown’s album “Stranger’s Almanac.” But there are still others that offer sounds entirely new to Adams’ catalog. Take the bouncy pop-rock tracks “Fix It” and “Evergreen...
Shutter Shades, a brand of sunglasses inspired by Kanye West and marketed since 2007, harken back to the bright colors of the 80s. As the name suggests, they feature strips of plastic rather than lenses and have revolutionized celebrity-inspired stupidity...
Still, online and elsewhere, the news was met with derision. Why, the armchair analysts wonder, would Microsoft turn to a guy who was a hit as recently as, er, 1998? (And who ruled the airwaves for the decade preceding that?) Is Microsoft indeed trying to harken back to a time when Windows was king, Google was a nonsense word and Apple was on the verge of extinction? And doesn't this show that Microsoft is out of touch with today's culture...