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Friday afternoon, despite Copeland's extraordinary efforts, Creighton died, having survived for eleven hours with an artificial heart and nearly 36 hours with a second human heart transplant. Had he fully regained consciousness, he would have learned that he had made medical history: in the space of four days his life had been sustained by four different hearts (including his own). Throughout the marathon medical battle the big concern was time. When Creighton's heart failed on Wednesday, he was put on a heart-lung machine, a device used to pump and oxygenate blood during heart surgery. The machine could...
...compressed air from a bulky external unit. The test model was built by Cheng in his spare time with limited funds and is 25% larger than a human heart. So large, in fact, that Creighton's chest had to remain open--though swathed in protective materials --for the eleven hours the device was in place...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...
Pakistan's national elections last week were in effect a tug-of-war between President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977, and the alliance of eleven opposition parties known as the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Zia exhorted his countrymen to vote, thereby demonstrating their support of his government; the opposition parties called for an election boycott, in the hope that this would lead Zia and the other generals back to their barracks. The result was a standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters...
...count, Edwards has been a target of eleven other grand jury probes over the past decade, including one still under way. All of them, he claims, have been conducted by Republicans. But he has always shrugged off charges of wrongdoing. "People say I've had brushes with the law," he has said. "That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors...