"How could they tell"?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/20/2010 11:03 AM, Bill Palmer wrote:
>Latest from this department:
>
>NYT Wire Service headline in thie morning's Raleigh News & Observer:
>
>"Heart Device leaves Cheney without a pulse"

 From Lawrence Altman's article in the New York Times yesterday [on line]:

"Mr. Cheney has not said whether he intends to live with the device
until his death or to sign up as a candidate for a human heart transplant."

In the same, um, vein as Bill's Subject line:

Perhaps this device explains the persistent misreports of Franco's
repeated deaths -- they kept not finding a pulse.

If he gets a heart transplant, may Igor get it from Abby Normal.

Joel

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