WOMAN HOPES IMPLANT WILL END SILENCE

Everybody was crammed into a little room at the University of Miami's Cochlear Implant Center. Nobody could see the implant, of course. That little $90,000 triumph of science was already embedded in Robin Peterson's right inner ear.

The Ledger (http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051219/NEWS/512190350/1004)