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...miracle when the heart of a man newly dead is lifted from his chest and installed in another man who is dying -- whereupon the heart comes throbbing to life in the chest of the second man, and he walks away and lives on for years? The event is repeated every day on medical assembly lines around the world. What is surgical plumbing today would have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world...
...There was barely a trace of the bags that had been so apparent under his eyes on TV the night before. He looked rested, smiled frequently, radiated energy, frequently karate-chopped the air or formed a fist to make a point, hooked his right thumb into his chest when referring to himself and several times rattled the china coffee cups in his vehemence. At one point, when describing how "the country is worried," he thrust his hands in the air like the victim of a stickup...
...collar." And, to his surprise, "I wound up resenting physicians who didn't realize how much medication would cost and how hard it was to go and pick it up." Weiss also had an epiphany: "I realized how little I talk to patients. I might ask them about chest pains but not 'Can you get dressed, eat O.K., take your medicine?' " At Long Beach, Jeffrey Ortiz thought he was in for a quiet rest when he was sent to the intensive care unit, suffering from "chest pains." Instead he spent a sleepless night: "People were coming in to do labs...
Against all odds, Carey emerged victorious last week in the biggest election in U.S. labor history. Carey, 55, rolled up 49% of the vote to beat two insiders, including R.V. Durham, the front runner, who had been handpicked by the union's bosses and backed by a campaign war chest of $2 million. Although only a quarter of the Teamsters' 1.6 million members participated in the vote, the first in which the rank and file was allowed to vote directly for the president, many observupset victory as a solid mandate to clean house...
...Admiral Kimmel stood near a window, a spent machine-gun bullet smashed the glass and hit him lightly in the chest. Kimmel -- who would soon, like General Short, be dismissed from his command -- picked up the bullet. To an aide, he observed, "It would have been merciful had it killed...