Word: artificiales
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Serpell's pet theories embrace the familiar argument that modern culture has placed artificial barriers between man and the natural world. Like many who confront this idea, he can be nostalgic in his definitions. The hunter- gatherers of the ice age, for example, are idealized as the beneficiaries of a...
Shortly after he received an artificial heart in 1984, William Schroeder was euphoric. "I feel like I've got ten years left right now," he exulted. But that was not to be. Last week at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered...
Schroeder's death marked the end of a valiant struggle for life, but it renewed debate about whether there should be a moratorium on permanent implants of the Jarvik-7 heart. Though Schroeder lived a record 620 days -- almost a third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died...
Within days of the implant, Schroeder was up, cracking jokes and drinking beer. But in less than three weeks, he suffered multiple strokes, a complication that has plagued three of the five permanent Jarvik-7 heart recipients. The seizures left him partly paralyzed, with impaired speech and memory. He recovered...
In Kansas, the legislature passed a law that makes retailers of pornography responsible for the content of what they sell. The legislature also expanded a law prohibiting "sexual exploitation of a child" (previously defined as under 16, now under 18) and outlawed possession of "kiddie porn" materials. Another measure this...