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...procedure creates new complications. Though wound healing may be improved, the danger of internal leakage and subsequent infection is a serious one - particularly with cuts through the stomach or colon. Doctors are also still using traditional laparoscopic surgical tools - not ideal, because they aren't as flexible as surgeons really need for such extensive internal maneuvering. So far, however, several surgical teams in the U.S. have performed partial hysterectomies and removed appendixes, gallbladders and kidneys via patients' natural orifices, and are hoping to attempt more complicated gastrointestinal procedures in the future. But the technique is still highly experimental. "This...
...spectrum," she told me. "The misogynists said women already have too many advantages. And the feminists said, How dare you not treat women like men." But what most amazed her was the reaction of young women: by and large, they assumed this is just how things work. "Why aren't they marching in the streets? That's the part that slays me," Delahunty says. "It isn't fair, and young women should be saying something about it not being fair...
Still, McCain has at least signaled a willingness to address his critics' legitimate concerns. His colleagues on the other side of the immigration debate aren't budging. They worry, reasonably, that it is hard to assimilate 1.5 million newcomers each year, especially when the vast majority of them are poor people from one country (Mexico) that shares a long border with us. But they have not found a way to raise these questions without sounding hostile to illegal immigrants or, worse, to Hispanics in general. Making the SAVE Act the beginning and end of GOP immigration policy would worsen that...
...These aren't bad ideas. But neither are they likely to prevent financial crises...
...Having such a jumbo-size personality on your team is not without its drawbacks. Rendell has a penchant for speaking his mind in ways that make for good headlines but aren't always on message. In February, for instance, he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board that some whites in the state "are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." As evidence, he offered his own 2006 reelection over challenger and former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Lynn Swann: "Had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was-well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking-but white instead...