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Now, any music or podcasts you start will come to a halt when the timer ends.\n16. Respond to calls with custom messages\n\nWhen you're too busy to pick up the phone, iOS lets you send a preset SMS response rather than answering. In fact, you can edit these preset options to say anything you want. Open Settings, head to Phone, and tap Respond with Text to add and edit potential messages.\n17. Secure your notes\n\nAlthough it's convenient to keep extremely private information—such as passwords or ID numbers—in your iPhone's Notes app, you don't want anyone else to be able to access this information. So protect these notes with a password. In Settings, go to Notes, followed by Password. Here, you can set a code or a Touch ID lock. Inside the Notes app, lock a specific note by dragging it to the left in the list, tapping the lock icon, and entering your password.\n18. 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      "body": "Steemit, the decentralized social media platform where users get paid to post and vote, and it’s, has exploded in popularity in its first month with a 1600% increase in community size since launch. Thus far, the online Steemit community (Reddit-like website) has doubled in membership every week, and the cryptocurrency its users are rewarded in, Steem, has increased its market cap of $7 million to $17 million USD.\n\nCEO Ned Scott said he is blown away by how quickly the Steemit platform is changing the online experience.\n\n    “We have worked so hard to perfect Steemit and give anyone an opportunity to make money by creating and curating good content. Based on reactions from experts and testing from our consumers, we knew that the reception would be strong, but Steemit is so much further along than where we thought it would be. In about a month, the market cap of Steem has increased two and a half times, page sessions have jumped by nearly six times, and the Steemit Blockchain is now seeing twelve transfers, posts or votes every minute on average. These are phenomenal numbers and we are excited that our growing community is engaging in a fun and potentially lucrative social medium.”\n\nSteemit is powered by an open source Blockchain called Steem, and its users are rewarded when they submit their blog posts or vote on articles, images and commentary that become popular. Users are paid half in “Steem Power,” a token that supercharges voting power, and half with Steem Dollars, a token worth about one USD. Currently, there are over 100 posts valued at $2000 worth of Steem, and the top 20 posts have an average payout of a combined $8,500 for posters and voters. \n\n    “Due to the increased number of entrepreneurs building social media apps integrating with Steemit and the Steem Blockchain, we are proud to announce that we are open-sourcing the code for the Steemit web wallet and social media interface. We are seeing incredible demand from early adopters and innovators bridging the technology to other social platforms such as Reddit, Twitter and WordPress. Having our technology freely available will empower entrepreneurs to extend upon the Steem Blockchain and further revolutionize how social media can reward users and creators,” Scott added.\n\nSince Steemit’s launch, its most popular topics include politics, technology and cryptocurrency, as well as ‘introduceyourself’, news, art and comedy.\n\nAcross the entire site, there has been a ten-fold increase in posts per day, as well as a ten-fold increase in votes per day. Due to popular demand, Steemit has integrated with a cryptocurrency exchange, BlockTrades, to allow users to purchase Steem Power with Bitcoin directly from their online account.\n\n    “The Steem Blockchain will be rewarding all Steemit users for their contributions on July 4, distributing 10% of its total token supply,” Scott said. \n\nTo sign up or learn more about Steemit, visit Steemit.com",
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      "body": "http://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/assets/images/article/featured/33346_med.jpg?itok=4zoX4S8m\n\n\nEach weekday morning, I cross D.C.’s National Mall and pass a sign on Constitution Avenue bearing an epigram by the U.S. architect Daniel Burnham: Make No Little Plans. Little plans, Burnham warned, have “no magic to stir men’s blood,” so we must “make big plans; aim high in hope and work,” and “remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.”\n\nAnd every morning, these words make me think not of Burnham’s 20th century United States, but of 21st century China. That is now where staggering plans are made and funded. Some Chinese plans will improve lives around the world, while others may erode the liberal international order the United States has led since 1945.\n\nBy 2016, a broad swathe of Americans had begun to feel the effects of China’s development in their everyday lives—in shopping malls, at the multiplex, in paychecks—and to sense that the center of global power might be shifting from the United States toward China. Since the two countries established relations in 1979, U.S. institutional and ideational impact on China has far outstripped China’s minuscule influence on U.S. tastes and values. In 2016, China’s big plans may have begun to tilt the balance. Consider the summer of 2016: In June, China built the world’s fastest supercomputer (unlike the previous fastest machine, also made in China, the new one used only Chinese chips—and no U.S. hardware); in July, China completed the world’s biggest radio telescope; and in August, it sent the world’s first quantum-communications satellite into orbit.\n\nChina’s 2016 successes followed its construction of the world’s longest high-speed rail network; its creation, over the last few decades, of cities, like Pudong and Shenzhen, out of rice paddies; and its development of the world’s largest telecom system. It is now China, not the United States, that uses industrial policy to master emerging technologies, makes massive capital investments, appropriates land, and quickly brings new ideas to market on a continental scale. China increasingly drives global supply and demand, while the West settles for Nobel prizes.\n\nChina’s ability to plan big depends in part on foreign innovation, some of it stolen, and on an authoritarian government that botches many of its grand projects. But that will be scant consolation for Americans if the next wave of discovery, not to mention both the hard and soft power accrued by it, is spurred by Chinese telescopes and satellites. China, furthermore, is aware of its creativity deficit. In 2016, Beijing accelerated its Silicon Valley shopping spree, buying tech and talent it couldn’t produce at home. Americans often observe that China is imitative, not innovative, and that its politicized universities and denial of personal freedom make it dependent on others for new ideas. That may have been important before China got rich, but does China’s inability to foster innovation still matter now that it can purchase it overseas?\n\nChina’s big plans don’t stop at its borders. Beijing intends to lead the integration, through infrastructure, of Eurasia and Africa. (On January 1, the first China-United Kingdom freight train set off from the city of Yiwu.)\n\nIf China builds the infrastructure that binds and enriches the world’s non-American nations, most of which already count China as their top trading partner, the United States will be a bystander to one of the century’s great transformations. The United States offers developing nations sermons on democracy; China builds their airports, harbors, and highways. Which approach will garner greater influence? As David Lampton, author of The Three Faces of Chinese Power, has said, “put your money on money.”\n\nWhile the scope of Beijing’s investments is staggering, the purchasing power of Chinese consumers may prove more influential yet. Credit Suisse estimates that, since 2015, China has had a larger middle class (people with U.S.$50,000-500,000 in annual income) than the United States. That means China will be tastemaker to the world. Products will be designed to satisfy Chinese consumers and Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.) regulations. Some cell phones sold in the United States are already built to Chinese specifications. Hollywood studios, aware that China may soon offer the world’s biggest box office, rewrite scripts to ensure U.S. movies play on Chinese screens. These erstwhile architects of U.S. soft power have given the C.C.P. a channel for the export of censorship.\nWhat’s At Stake?\n\nBarring a domestic economic or political collapse—both unlikely—China is destined to be the world’s largest market for most products and commodities, the top issuer of everything from Ph.D.s and patents to greenhouse gases, and a leading shaper of global norms and institutions. There is nothing nefarious in this; it’s just the law of large numbers. When hundreds of millions of people in the same country get rich fast, that country’s power increases. In broad terms, China is doing what other rising powers, including the United States, have done: using financial and military power to shape the external environment to its aims.\n\nIt is those aims, not Chinese power per se, that should concern China’s neighbors and the United States.\n\nThe C.C.P.’s primary goal is maintaining its monopoly on power. China’s military strategy, trade and investment policy, global media, and cultural and educational exchanges all serve that end. Because the C.C.P. feels constrained and demonized by the modern liberal order, it uses its economic and military might to break constraints and change minds. Beijing is trying to persuade the world to accept the C.C.P.’s domestic standards for the treatment of individuals, information, and institutions as legitimate alternatives to liberal norms. This program is evident in China’s rejection of international law in the South China Sea, its gaming of international trade rules, its curbing of Internet freedoms in the name of “cyber security,” its attempts to weaken NGOs in China and at the United Nations (U.N.), and in its readiness to punish nations which host the Dalai Lama or celebrate Chinese dissidents on their own soil. China pushes these policies even as it provides a growing number of public goods, including U.N. peacekeeping, disaster relief, medical aid, and badly needed infrastructure investment. For the C.C.P., there is no contradiction between the illiberal and beneficial aspects of its foreign policy: protectionist authoritarianism provides the stability that makes Chinese generosity and trade possible. All of these variables should be understood and welcomed, in Beijing’s view, as essential parts of a balanced equation.\n\nThe question posed by China’s drive to shape world order is, do we wish to live in a world that is increasingly amenable to an increasingly repressive C.C.P.? What range of compromise to liberal principles should we accept to secure peace, accrue wealth, and develop technology in a world in which China is one of the dominant powers?\nTwilight of the Engagement Consensus\n\nChina’s growing influence; the policies of General Secretary Xi Jinping, who sees Western values as an existential threat to his state; and Chinese assertiveness in the Western Pacific have convinced many Americans that the policy of engaging China has failed. Engagement, pursued by all American presidents since 1979, has been based on recognition that U.S.-China relations are both cooperative and competitive, and on the belief that encouraging cooperation is the United States’ best means of convincing China to support the liberal international order.\n\nChina has supported global norms more often than not over the past three decades, but under Xi, China seems determined—gradually and peacefully, if possible, and through coercion if necessary—to become the benign hegemon of Asia. China can only achieve this through the weakening of the United States’ alliance system and rejection of key principles of international law.\n\nAgainst this background, a growing number of U.S. analysts, and several of Donald Trump’s advisors, argue that, through engagement, the United States has naively raised a tiger that devours U.S. prosperity. U.S. policy should therefore be guided by clear recognition that relations with China are, in essence, strategically, economically, and ideologically competitive. We should cooperate where we can, but steel ourselves to compete when we must.\n2017: Rebalance Redux\n\nWhen Donald Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, Chinese leaders and citizens will pay closer attention than they have to any prior inauguration. His campaign rhetoric, tweets, and appointments suggest Trump is eager to launch a competitive era in U.S.-China relations. China is less keen on adversarial relations. Its continued development requires a peaceful external environment and access to the American market. Because China has more to lose from heightened competition than the U.S., it will meet any Trumpian onslaught with the full attention of its government and military and will mobilize industry, media, and public opinion as only authoritarian regimes can. President Trump, meanwhile, cannot possibly make competition with China his top priority. His administration will be too busy and distracted, domestically and internationally, to pay the strategic attention to China that his China rhetoric has implied. The new president will therefore have to refine his competitive instincts in light of the complexity, ambiguity, and high risk which remain baseline facts of Sino-U.S. relations.\n\nPresident Trump will also have to deal with the fact of limited resources. Early in its tenure, his team must review its global policy priorities and conduct an audit of America’s finances and will. If its assessments are thorough and objective, the administration is bound to find that China’s increased power, U.S. commitments in the Middle East and Europe, the domestic budget crisis, and the need to rebuild the U.S.’s job base and infrastructure—all while cutting taxes—mean that the U.S. cannot sustain the type of primacy to which it is accustomed in the Western Pacific. The Trump administration will have no choice but to rely on allies and partners, trade, diplomacy, and soft power to achieve its aims in the region. Sooner or later, and the sooner the better, Trump is bound to rediscover the strategic rationale for the Rebalance to Asia.\n\nWhether or not Trump’s pledge to build a 350-ship navy is realistic, it signals his acceptance of the need for a military rebalance; the only threat that might justify such expense is China’s challenge to U.S. preeminence. A military buildup alone, however, will not convince Asian nations that the United States can check China’s power over the long haul. To compete in a region that boasts 60 percent of the world’s consumers and roughly two-thirds of global economic growth, the United States must set trade standards that benefit Asia as well as American companies and consumers. That means the Trump administration will have to resurrect the economic rebalance in some form, despite the death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Coordinating the security and prosperity legs of competition with China, moreover, will require U.S. participation in the growing number of organizations, treaties, and financial institutions that are reshaping Asia. Diplomatic rebalancing must therefore be added to the mix.\n\nThat completes the equation: military + economic + diplomatic focus on Asia was precisely the formula for the rebalance announced by Obama in 2012.\n\nPresident Trump will not replay the Obama rebalance; he will reinvent it on a more militarized and moralistic basis. To convince a skeptical electorate to pay for an expanded military, Trump will likely invoke an issue he has shown no interest in to date: human rights. After all, the primary reason that the U.S. (and much of the rest of the world) should be wary of China’s wealth and power is that they come packaged with political practices that are noxious to free nations—practices that grow more severe as Xi tightens his control over Chinese society. Under Xi, China is “going bad,” as the journalist James Fallows put it in the December 2016 issue of The Atlantic. Fallows cautioned that “by ‘bad’ I don’t mean morally,” but that is exactly what he means. Trump is sure to seize on that “badness” eventually to make his case to taxpayers, and his penchant for moral critiques—“crooked,”China’s “rape” of the American economy—indicates that once he gets warmed up, he will attack China’s human rights record with gusto.\nRe-Engagement\n\nEven as it pursues its rebalance, the Trump administration will discover that it cannot isolate China. China has so much to offer the world (see money, above) that Trump will find little international support for policies aimed at stanching its economic development. Obama’s disastrous opposition to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank demonstrated that even the United States’ closest allies will not join in unreasonable opposition to China. The U.S. and China are now so interdependent, moreover, that Washington cannot impose economic costs on China that don’t ricochet onto U.S. allies and the United States itself.\n\nFaced with the fact (facts keep cropping up) of mutual dependence, the Trump team will realize that, just as it has no choice but to reclaim the rebalance, it cannot abandon engagement altogether.\nOnly by engaging can the United States continue to benefit from the talent and energy of the one-fifth of humanity that resides in China.\nOnly by engaging can the United States continue to benefit from the talent and energy of the one-fifth of humanity that resides in China, and only through engagement, coordinated with military, economic, and diplomatic strength, can the United States continue to catalyze change in a China that can still be influenced by American policy and American examples.\n\nHe may not adopt the terms engagement and rebalance, but President-elect Trump is fortunate that these policies provide a rough roadmap for managing U.S.-China relations, even in an era of heightened competition. The aim of Trumpian Rebalance and Engagement should be to convince Beijing that, while a risen China is welcome as a leading provider of public goods and contributor to global norms, the United States and its allies are determined to prevent an illiberal China from dominating Asia.\n\nThat’s a Big Plan that Daniel Burnham might applaud. Realizing it will require the hard work of decades. The alternative is a new Cold War—one that renders all talk of global norms obsolete.",
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      "body": "It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for gym owners. Almost 50 percent more people join up in January compared with other months, clearly suffused with a commitment to carry out their New Year’s resolutions to exercise. But people often begin their self-improvement plans armed with bad information. Here are five frequent myths.\nMyth No. 1\nAthletes should stave off dehydration with sports drinks.\n\nThe first sports drink was Gatorade, an elixir filled with sugars and salts that was developed in 1965 to prevent dehydration in football players at the University of Florida. The initial 1996 American College of Sports Medicine guidelines for fluid replacement held that endurance athletes should concentrate on aggressively replacing “all the water lost through sweating.” Gatorade and its rivals market their drinks for this purpose, and by 2015, their sales exceeded $8.4 billion per year (Gatorade, a PepsiCo product, accounted for nearly 30 percent).\n\nBut sports drinks generally help only people who exercise for more than an hour, and the benefit comes mainly from the sugars, not the fluids, particularly if the carbohydrate is a mixed dose of fructose and glucose. Severe dehydration can imperil athletes, but according to studies by South African researcher Timothy Noakes, the author of “Waterlogged: The Serious Problem of Overhydration in Endurance Sports,” the body is more than equipped to tolerate mild dehydration, while overhydration may pose more severe risks. In several high-profile cases, overdosing on liquids has led to dangerous and occasionally fatal outcomes. As a consequence, the 2007 American College of Sports Medicine position recommended a more cautious approach: People who exercise for long periods should avoid losing more than 2 percent of their body mass, and within that very broad parameter, fluids containing carbohydrates can be helpful during longer endurance activities. Still, all sports drinks have calories, and consuming them when water will suffice can contribute to fat gain.\nMyth No. 2\nCrunches and abdominal exercise will trim belly fat.\n\nPopular magazines and websites suggest that a six-pack is just a few maneuvers away. Shape magazine calls planking the “secret to amazing abs.” And Health magazine says you can eliminate your “muffin top” with “fat-burning ab exercises,” such as crunches and “donkey kickbacks.”\n\nFat is generally categorized as subcutaneous (under the skin) or visceral (around organs); love handles are the former kind. Fat stores are burned from all areas evenly when you eat less and exercise more. A six-pack does not emerge when you target the fat in your abdominal area; it comes from bulking up those muscles, which can grow strong enough to show through the layer of subcutaneous fat — they simply appear more pronounced with a lower percentage of overall body fat. As it happens, women tend to maintain fat around the hips and upper thighs, while men keep it around the lower abdomen. An exercise regimen that burns off body fat generally will help slim down all areas, including the subcutaneous and visceral abdominal regions, narrowing the waist and flattening the belly.\n\n\nMyth No. 3\nProtein powders are a good way to bulk up.\n\nWeightlifters, Instagram celebrities and commercial purveyors say these concoctions are what you need to add muscle mass. Men’s Fitness instructs that whey and casein “enhance muscle-building.” Hafthor Bjornsson, the weightlifter who plays the Mountain on “Game of Thrones,” volunteered that he takes branched-chain amino acid and glutamine supplements.\n\nYes, you need to consume more protein than your muscles degrade, but the optimal intake for resistance training varies based on your diet, your metabolism and your training. According to a study I conducted in the late 1980s, the amount of mixed protein needed by very-well-trained weightlifters is only about 50 percent above that needed by sedentary folks. Varsity-level strength athletes training six days a week and weightlifters during the early stages of a very intensive program need, at most, 100 percent above the requirements for sedentary people. Taking protein beyond these amounts leads to an increase in protein oxidation (you just pee out the extra nitrogen) with no increase in muscle protein synthesis.\n\nPowders are simply unnecessary, since food more than suffices. The current recommendations of the American Dietetic Association, Dietitians of Canada and the American College of Sports Medicine can be met with a proper diet, in which proteins with high biological value (egg whites and milk) are pound for pound better than meat and fish, which themselves are better than plant-based proteins such as soy.\nMyth No. 4\nEndurance exercise is best for cardiovascular health.\n\nMost government and professional fitness guidelines emphasize aerobic programs, such as jogging or cycling. Canada, for instance, suggests that adults age 18 to 64 “focus on moderate to vigorous aerobic activity” for “at least 2.5 hours a week.” The American Heart Association emphasizes aerobic exercise for “overall cardiovascular health,” or a combination of more vigorous aerobic activity plus “muscle-strengthening activity.”\n\nBut recent evidence suggests that shorter bouts of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) — which forces a different kind of oxygen-free energy creation inside the muscles — can provide similar benefits to longer moderate-intensity continuous (MICT) workouts, in about one-fifth the time. “The One Minute Workout,” by kinesiologist Martin Gibala, documents the research into these fairly new form of exercise, which can include burpees and cycling sprints. 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      "body": "One blue surgical drape at a time, the patient disappeared, until all that showed was a triangle of her shaved scalp.\n\n“Ten seconds of quiet in the room, please,” said Dr. David J. Langer, the chairman of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, part of Northwell Health. Silence fell, until he said, “O.K., I’ll take the scissors.”\n\nHis patient, Anita Roy, 66, had impaired blood flow to the left side of her brain, and Dr. Langer was about to perform bypass surgery on slender, delicate arteries to restore the circulation and prevent a stroke.\n\nThe operating room was dark, and everyone was wearing 3-D glasses. Lenox Hill is the first hospital in the United States to buy a device known as a videomicroscope, which turns neurosurgery into an immersive and sometimes dizzying expedition into the human brain.\n\nEnlarged on a 55-inch monitor, the stubble on Ms. Roy’s shaved scalp spiked up like rebar. The scissors and scalpel seemed big as hockey sticks, and popped out of the screen so vividly that observers felt an urge to duck.\n\n“This is like landing on the moon,” said a neurosurgeon who was visiting to watch and learn.\n\nThe equipment produces magnified, high-resolution, three-dimensional digital images of surgical sites, and lets everyone in the room see exactly what the surgeon is seeing. The videomicroscope has a unique ability to capture “the brilliance and the beauty of the neurosurgical anatomy,” Dr. Langer said.\n\nHe and other surgeons who have tested it predict it will change the way many brain and spine operations are performed and taught. “The first time I used it, I told students that this gives them an understanding of why I went into neurosurgery in the first place,” Dr. Langer said.\n\nBut there is more to it than just the gee-whiz, Imax factor. The shared viewing makes 3-D surgery an ideal teaching tool. In addition, Dr. Langer and other doctors say the device is smaller and much less cumbersome than standard surgical microscopes and provides better light.\n\nIt can easily be moved and angled to show bits of anatomy that surgeons would otherwise have to twist and crane their necks to see. Two surgeons on opposite sides of the table can work together easily.\n\nStandard surgical microscopes are enormous and require a complicated draping process to ensure sterility. Not so with the new videomicroscope, which is covered with just a sleeve that Dr. Langer said can be slipped on like a condom.\n\nNeurosurgery can take many hours, which surgeons operating with magnifying loupes or microscopes often spend looking down, their necks bent. As the clock ticks, discomfort becomes pain, and over the years chronic injury to the neck and back can be a career-ender for some surgeons. The new device lets them operate while looking straight ahead at the 3-D screen, using the image to guide their hands.\n\nhttps://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/09/science/09SCI-SURGERY2/09SURGERY2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&auto=webp\n\n\n“I don’t think there’s any doubt that it’s going to be valuable,” Dr. Langer said. But, he added, “In the eyes of someone who’s more conservative and who’s not as willing to try new things, they may not get over the hump and be willing to do it.”\n\nThe device at Lenox Hill is called the Orbeye, made by Somed — a joint venture of Olympus and Sony — and marketed by Olympus. Dr. Langer has received consulting fees from the company.\n\nA number of other medical centers in the United States have also been testing the Orbeye. Dr. Charles L. Branch, chief of neurosurgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., said his first patient with it was a red bell pepper.\n\n“I cut a hole and plucked seeds out of the center,” he said. “I wanted to make sure you could see down a tubular opening. It worked really well.”\n\nHe quickly moved on to humans, and has used the equipment in about 20 spine surgeries, all minimally invasive and performed through a tube.\n\n“The very first case, I almost felt like I was getting carsick,” he said. But it was a fleeting sensation, and he adapted quickly.\n\n“It’s really cool,” Dr. Branch said. “It’s like being in the Imax. It lets not only the surgeon but everybody else in the room see what’s going on. Instead of having to lean up against the microscope, and strain my neck or back, I can stand comfortably, look at the big screen in front of me and work with my hands.”\n\nHe described the camera as “a Coke can on a stick over my shoulder,” easy to move, adjust and angle into positions not possible with a microscope.\n\nThere are 10 neurosurgeons in his department, Dr. Branch said. “Everyone that’s used it has seen some potential benefit, but not everyone has decided they want to use it in every case.”\n\nHe said that the company had lent an Orbeye to his hospital for surgeons to try out, and that he hoped the hospital would buy “a handful” of the devices, more than one because so much surgery is done there. Dr. Branch said he had no financial ties to the company.\n\n“I don’t think it’s a gimmick,” he said. “I believe it will be widely adopted fairly quickly.”\n\nMark Miller, a spokesman for Olympus, said the Orbeye’s pricing would be similar to that of standard surgical microscopes, which range from $200,000 to $1 million. The system that Lenox Hill bought cost about $400,000, Dr. Langer said. Other companies are also trying to enter the market.\n\n“I think we’ll see three or four competitive products pop up,” Dr. Branch said. “That will make the technology less expensive.”\n\nhttps://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/09/science/09SCI-SURGERY3a/09SCI-SURGERY3-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&auto=webp\n\n\nDr. Bob S. Carter, chief of neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, said using the Orbeye was like having “Superman eyes,” but added that his hospital was also evaluating other devices and had not yet decided which to buy. The technology, he said, is “the way of the future.”\n‘I Just Feel Good’\n\nMs. Roy, a retired administrative assistant who lives in the Bronx, first noticed troubling symptoms in 2015: episodes of weakness in her right hand, and trouble speaking. Tests at a local hospital ruled out a stroke. But the occasional episodes continued, and in July 2017, while recovering from heart surgery at Lenox Hill, she had a seizure.\n\nA battery of tests found she had moyamoya disease, a rare condition first identified in Japan. The name means “puff of smoke,” and describes patients’ X-rays, which show a cloud of fragile blood vessels that sprout in the brain where normal vessels are blocked.\n\nThere are probably various causes, which are not well understood. Many patients are children. The condition can progress and lead to multiple strokes, mental decline and, in adults, death from brain hemorrhage.\n\nMs. Roy had no doubts: Hoping to avoid a major stroke that could cripple or kill her, she wanted brain surgery.\n\nHer operation, on Dec. 15, was the first bypass Dr. Langer performed with the Orbeye, though he and his colleagues had used it for other operations. This type of bypass is one of the most difficult neurosurgical operations, and requires stitching together arteries that are only a millimeter or so in diameter. Colleagues say Dr. Langer is one of the few surgeons in the world with the skill and experience to perform it well.\n\nA vessel in Ms. Roy’s scalp — one that Dr. Langer called “the Michael Jordan artery,” because his can be seen pulsing at his temple — would be rerouted to feed a deeper artery whose blood supply had been cut off.\n\nThe cut end of one branch of the scalp artery would be sewn to a hole cut in the side of the deeper vessel. Another branch of the scalp artery would simply be laid atop Ms. Roy’s brain, with the expectation that branches would grow into the nerve tissue, because oxygen-deprived cells secrete substances that can stimulate the growth of blood vessels.\n\nThe procedure started with assistant surgeons touching an ultrasound probe to Ms. Roy’s temple to detect the pulse of the scalp artery, and then marking the vessel’s path with purple ink so that Dr. Langer would know precisely where to cut. Then he would begin the painstaking process of freeing the two branches of the artery from their surrounding tissue.\n\nWhen the scalp artery was free, the surgeons took a drill and a saw to Ms. Roy’s skull, removing a disc of bone about three inches in diameter. Magnified 15 times on the monitor, her brain, webbed with bright red blood vessels, gleamed in the light and pulsated with each heartbeat.\n\nIt took about 10 stitches to sew the scalp artery to the artery in the brain, using a curved needle about the size of an eyelash and fine thread barely visible to the naked eye.\n\n“The first two stitches are the hardest,” Dr. Langer said. “They set the whole thing up. I’m sewing vertically, but I have no trouble seeing. It’s high magnification.”\n\nhttps://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/01/09/science/09SCI-SURGERY4/09SCI-SURGERY4-articleLarge.jpg?quality=30&auto=webp\n\n\nOne slip could easily sew the fragile, slippery vessels shut instead of joining them. Every move was clearly visible to everyone in the room.\n\nWhen the stitching was done, Dr. Langer used an ultrasound probe to check for the rhythmic whooshing sound that would mean blood was flowing through the newly created channel.\n\nInitially, the flow was weak, and another neurosurgeon, eyeing the monitor, suggested a bit more dissection to loosen the recipient artery. Dr. Langer took his advice. It worked.\n\nThe clear view from the 3-D screen makes that kind of kibitzing possible. Dr. Langer said he likes it.\n\n“I have to be open to that,” he said. “A lot of guys are egomaniacal and don’t want to listen to anybody else.”\n\nThe next step was to place the other branch of the scalp artery directly onto Ms. Roy’s brain. Soon, surgeons were fastening the disc of skull — newly notched to let the rerouted artery pass through — back into place with tiny mending plates, and closing her scalp with forty staples.\n\nBy 4 p.m., six hours after the surgery began, Ms. Roy, the drapes removed from her face, was blinking in the glare of the operating room, and moving her arms and legs. An anesthesiologist told her the surgery was finished and had gone well. Ms. Roy managed a sleepy smile.\n\nThree days later, in a robe and bright red socks, she was sitting up in bed, chatting with her husband over lunch. It was hard to believe she’d so recently had brain surgery.\n\n“I just feel good,” she said.\n\nShe jokingly accused Dr. Langer of having told her “a story” about potential side effects and a difficult recovery. It was the week before Christmas, and she had decorated her tree and finished wrapping gifts before heading to the hospital, fearing that she would be unable to do so after the surgery.\n\nBut the operation, she said, “was, like, nothing.”\n\n“They don’t all go so well,” Dr. Langer said. “These things are high risk, and they don’t always turn out perfectly.”\n\nWithout surgery, for patients like Ms. Roy, estimates for the risk of a stroke range from 20 percent to 50 percent or even higher within five years, he said. After successful surgery, the risk drops to a few percent a year or less.\n\nMs. Roy, to be released that day, was more than ready to leave the hospital.\n\n“I need some air,” she said. She was looking forward to the walk across town with her husband to catch an express bus home to the Bronx.\n\n“I am lucky,” she said.",
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