Numbers in the news.$250,000 Cost of a fully implantable artificial heart approved by the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. in September for patients with severe congestive heart failure congestive heart failure, inability of the heart to expel sufficient blood to keep pace with the metabolic demands of the body. In the healthy individual the heart can tolerate large increases of workload for a considerable length of time. . SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 103 Screen size, in inches, of a plasma TV--the largest to date--being introduced this fall, by Panasonic. SOURCE: TIME 490 Number of calories in a Starbucks venti (20 oz.) Caffe Mocha Mocha (mō`kə), town (1990 est. pop. 2,000), S Yemen, a port on the Red Sea. It was noted for the export of the coffee to which it gave its name but declined as a trading port in the late 19th cent. with the rise of Hodeida and Aden. with whipped cream. It has 15 grams of saturated fat, compared with 10 in a Big Mac. SOURCE: NUTRITION ACTION NEWSLETTER $7,000 Amount that the U.S. Secret Service paid for 54 iPods for "training and data storage." SOURCE: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress, and thus an agency in the Legislative Branch of the United States Government. 1 Number of bills vetoed by George W. Bush, the fewest of any President since James Garfield. The vetoed bill would have lifted a ban on federal funding for new stem-cell research. SOURCE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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