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...soft money that it plans to spend quickly for a new headquarters. "It reminds me of the old drunk who swears he will quit drinking tomorrow, but he's going to get drunk tonight," says Representative Tom Davis, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, the fund-raising arm for the House G.O.P...
This is not the only time Bush and his cohorts have had trouble releasing documents. The General Accounting Office (the investigative arm of Congress) is currently suing Vice President Dick Cheney over records of his consultation with top Enron officials in crafting the administration’s energy policy...
...trader, Jim Schwieger, challenged Lay. Why, he asked, was chief financial officer Andrew Fastow sharing the stage--and gainfully employed--considering that he had just blown half a billion dollars mismanaging several Enron partnerships and earned $30 million doing it? Lay put his arm around Fastow and proclaimed his "unequivocal trust" in the CFO. The partnership accounting was complex stuff, Lay explained, but Fastow was on top of it--or he'd be in big trouble. A day after that buddy-buddy display, Fastow was history...
...minimalist approach begins with the first cut, which many surgeons now place near the nipple, under the arm or in the lower portion of the breast so that any scars are much less obvious. Because many small tumors are confined to the duct or its immediate vicinity, doctors have learned they don't need to remove so much of the overlying fatty tissue as they used to. "Taking out too much fat was what led to the concavities and deformities we saw in the past," says Dr. Alexander Swistel, director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center in New York City...
Doctors have also developed a new technique for determining whether a cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. Instead of taking 15 to 20 lymph nodes from in and around the armpit for further examination--a procedure that can lead to problems with swelling and disability of the arm--they are focusing on certain key spots called sentinel nodes. The surgical team injects a blue dye into the tissue from which it has just removed a tumor and traces its path through the lymph system. The first node or two that the dye reaches are presumably also the first nodes...