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...device, called Ineraid, in 20 more people. Kolff will donate the first two devices, but the other patients will each have to pay about $10,000. In addition, implant surgery at he Utah medical center will cost approximately $7,000. Doctors say that the implantation is comparable to root-canal surgery, but pain and discomfort disappear after about a week. Thereafter, the barely visible implanted plug requires no special care. Dr. Michael M. Merzenich, director of the Coleman Laboratory at the University of California at San Francisco, praises Ineraid. "I think that ultimately a very high level of speech comprehension...
...will sooner or later stagnate. It will surely prove unable to take advantage of diplomatic opportunities for an easing of tensions. That is the central issue before the Atlantic Alliance today. It requires a remedy that is fundamental, even radical?in the literal sense of going to the root...
...composer-arranger, "they fulfill pop music's never-ending quest for fresh ear candy," but entertainment-industry enthusiasms are notoriously transient, and next year may bring a rage for Mahler-size orchestras or Renaissance recorder ensembles. And despite its mockingbird predilections, the synthesizer still sounds, at root, mechanical...
Explanations for this trend are, to some extent, necessarily speculative. Intuitively subtle or even unconscious racism on the part of not only juries but also judges and prosecutors, seems to lie at the root of the problem. In any particular case, a death sentence is only the final stage in a long drawn-out criminal justice process. For example, it is obvious, and statistically confirmed by Bowers and Pierce, that considerations of race do indeed come into play at the indictment stage in the decisions of local prosecutors, sensitive to public opinion and the odds for success regarding whether...
...general, conventional forces logically lie at the root of the European security question. After all, troops and tanks have been there essentially unchanged in number, if not in sophistication, since 1945. Small, tactical nukes came later, and were integrated more or less haphazardly into each side's standing battle plan. Intercontinental missiles came later still. The strategic arms race has essentially been a battle of politics and prestige. The questions behind nuclear weapons are really ones of cost, domestic politics and proliferation. Neither defense establishment seriously fears a general thermonuclear attack started by accident or even by design. In fact...