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...buzzing 4-lb., grapefruit-size plastic-and-titanium lump. Nevertheless, Tools was happy to be able to wake up at all. His real heart had failed him, and he had become the first person to receive a fully contained mechanical heart. The retired tech librarian, 59, from Franklin, Ky., revealed his identity and addressed the media last week--two months after doctors had given him only 30 days to live. Tools opted to have the device, the AbioCor, implanted as part of a federal clinical trial at Jewish Hospital in Louisville. Surgeons Robert Dowling and Laman Gray are pleased with...
More than 4,000 Americans on any given day are waiting for a heart transplant. Because of a shortage of donors, about a third of them will die before a suitable replacement can be found. So when surgeons in Louisville, Ky., sewed a high-tech artificial heart into a desperately ill man last week, it seemed like the answer to a lot of prayers. The patient, whose name has not been released, is described as a diabetic in his mid to late 50s who developed congestive heart failure after suffering several heart attacks. If he survives and his health improves...
...will instantly become news.) But this kind of metaspectacle can be powerful. The last official public execution, in 1936, became the last of its kind precisely because of media attention, not to the hanging itself - of a 22-year-old black man convicted of rape and murder in Owensboro, Ky. - but to the 20,000 mostly white Owensboro citizens who filled the streets, a "Roman holiday" that repulsed readers nationwide. The Bureau of Prisons knows this lesson well, having barred demonstrators from carrying frying pans or any other prop that might too gauchely convey that they are happy a killer...
Luke Woodham, who killed two classmates in Pearl, Miss., in 1997 after beating and stabbing his mother to death, gets very few visitors. The school friends of Michael Carneal, who killed three classmates in West Paducah, Ky., in 1997, largely shun him. From jail, Brazill continued to write love letters to Dinora Rosales, one of the girls he wanted to see when the teacher he killed, Barry Grunow, refused to allow Brazill inside the classroom because he had been suspended for throwing water balloons. But the 14-year-old Rosales, feeling threatened, turned the mash notes over to the police...
...activities like shopping or watching TV together. In a survey conducted last year for TIME and the Nickelodeon channel, 24% of kids felt their parents showed little or no interest in what they studied at school. Says Kim Joiner, a technology consultant at Conway Middle School in Louisville, Ky.: "It's very popular to say we have a problem in education, but it's not very popular to say we have a parent problem...