With an adventurous heart and open mind, Emile Maurice Hermes traveled to meet Henry Ford in the U.S., where he discovered the newly invented zipper that was being used on car canvas at the time.

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"It's going to temper the use of these drugs, there's no doubt in my mind, " says Douglas Weaver, a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital and the president of the American College of Cardiology, which is meeting in Chicago this weekend.

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