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...medical community has become a priesthood in white coats. And like any priesthood, it has a tendency to attach to dogma. In this case, the dogma declares that it is always necessary to do something--anything--for a patient, even when no profitable treatment is available. Thus doctors will often perfunctorily prescribe some treatment for mononucleosis, though the illness will pass on its own and in its own time. Doctors often pursue unbelievably expensive courses of treatment in cases where there is no reasonable prognosis for recovery...
...also involved in legislative strategy. For the past few weeks, Democratic leaders in the Senate have been wrestling with ways to attach the health-care bill to the economic package in a giant superbill later this year. Senate rules made the gambit look unlikely from the start, but last week Hillary joined one final push on the issue before Senator Robert Byrd confirmed that it wouldn't be appropriate...
...gardening center and chemical-supply house. For little more than $400, buy several 100-lb. bags of urea and some bottles of nitric and sulfuric acid. Mix the urea and acids into a thick paste, put the glop in plastic bags, then pack them in a cardboard box. Next attach either a blasting cap or a detonator made of some batteries, an alarm clock and a container of nitroglycerine. But be very, very careful. "If it spills on the floor, and you scuff your shoe in it," says an explosives expert, "you could make...
...Some council members ignore the fact that we do things wrong," Hanselman said. "The people on the committee will become quasi-experts on the topics they study while general members will forget all the research involved and attach their own amendments to the proposals...
Though investigators do not know for certain what caused either of these crashes, they suspect that the steel pins that attach the engines to the wing may have failed. Even before the China Airlines accident, Boeing was concerned about wear and tear on the so-called fuse pins, 4-in.-long cylinders of machined steel designed to hold each engine securely under the wing. Each engine has four pins. Up to a year ago, airlines had found deterioration in seven pins. Since then, eight more weakened pins have been discovered. The problem seems to begin with pitting and corrosion that...