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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country, said the seventeenth-century English diplomat Sir Henry Wotton. By “to lie,” Wotton meant both to dwell somewhere (in a ...

Another patient has hit the emergency room, this one with a malfunctioning pacemaker. As doctors begin the complex process of inserting a wire into his chest, a question-and-answer session begins.

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