She saw his lungs inflate but couldn't get a pulse, she said.

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She said she's asked her staff why no one saw it coming, and she admitted that the U.S. doesn't seem to have a pulse on the Palestinian population.

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"I said to him maybe he's taken his finger off the pulse because he didn't know what was going on!"

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If the X7500 "Athena" somehow managed to fail to attract your attention and you found the Vox, Libra, Love, and Cavailer positively forgettable, first verify that you have a pulse (because we really don't think that's normal) then check this out: HTC's 2007 arsenal is shaping up to be a doozy, with several previously-unknown models stepping into the spotlight.

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Frankly, "Case" sounds on the verge of imploding as it is, with an acoustic-guitar solo that might be called flamenco if it weren't so scattershot and an otherwise-simple quarter-note pulse, which creates the illusion that the song's center is constantly shifting.

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That fleeting pulse, a 20-nanosecond flash, can't arrive at once or the tiny round target will warp, making ignition impossible.

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Since the FDA gave the big thumbs up to a fully implantable artificial heart earlier this month, cardiac surgeon "Bud" Frazier and his team at the Texas Heart Institute aren't wasting any time in developing what they hope will be a fully-functioning, pulse-free artificial heart.

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