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This robot--a da Vinci model made by Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, Calif.--doesn't exactly have a mind of its own. About 15 ft. away from the operating table, Dr. Randall Wolf sits hunched over a console that looks as if it came straight out of a video-game arcade. Instead of blasting imaginary bad guys, Wolf is peering into a 3-D display that gives him a surprisingly clear view, magnified up to 10 times, inside the patient's chest. He can see the top of the beating heart, the bulge of every rib and the outline...
...million da Vinci robot, made by Intuitive Surgical, is a modern twist on an older technique known as "keyhole" surgery, in which surgeons use elongated chopstick-like tools teamed with a tiny camera to work inside the body. But "keyhole" surgery is counterintuitive: to move the instrument's tip to the left, the surgeon has to push the handle to the right - and vice versa. Despite the advantages to the patient, only about one-quarter of the 15 million operations performed each year in the U.S. are done this way. The da Vinci takes the tools out of the surgeon...
...offspring that, at the high point of empire building, was more than one-million strong. Today, in Malaysia's Strait of Malacca, 1,000 Eurasian fishermen, descendants of intrepid Portuguese traders, still speak an archaic dialect of Portuguese, practice the Catholic faith and carry surnames like De Silva and Da Costa. In Macau, 10,000 mixed-race Macanese serve as the backbone of the former colony's civil service and are known for their spicy fusion cuisine...
...complex, you see, has reared its bloody head with renewed vengeance. But big-hearted professors of The Rights of Man need not despair just yet, if only we can divert some of the war-mongering wampum from bombers, battleships and other things armies generally need to—dum-da-da-dee-DUM!—a beefed-up force of permanent peacekeepers...
...CoCo bottom line to date: 16 CDs, 8 million copies sold, and two MTV International awards: 1999 Best Female Artist and Best Chinese Music video in 1998 for Di Da Di, her biggest hit to date. House of fashion Chanel named Coco its first "Asian-Pacific Celebrity Ambassadress" because, as the company's regional director of image and external relations Bonnie Gokson says: "She's just perfect. And she wears our clothes very well." (The fact that her name is also a Chanel trademark doesn't hurt either.) The designation means lots of clothes, makeup and guest appearances throughout Asia...