Sean Penn, some sort of math professor with a bad ticker, gets the heart of the dead man, at which point he begins to follow around the grieving widow (Naomi Watts).

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If any part of the chamber is not contracting, which may indicate an old myocardial infarction (a portion of the heart muscle is dead).

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He is credited with helping to change the perception of Australia's interior from that of the country's "dead heart" to one of a vital space, imbued with spiritual significance for indigenous peoples.

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The contradiction at the heart of Mr Blair's reforms was always the absurdity of removing the dead hand of local government, only to impose an even tighter grip from the centre.

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Unlikely as it may seem, the leader of Labour Party has placed a long dead Tory peer at the heart of his politics.

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There are few experiences more thrilling than tracking and capturing a wild crocodile in the dead of night, on a river in the heart of the Central American jungle.

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New research shows that sticking to the Mediterranean diet, previously shown to reduce heart and other health issues, also may help lower the risk of having small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking problems.

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Trim, fit, full of life, he was midway through a doubles tennis game, casually walking with his partner from one end of the court to the other, when he dropped dead from a heart attack.

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