Word: balloon
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OPEN SESAME Early reports suggest radiation may prevent arteries from closing up again after balloon angioplasty. It may work even better than today's tiny arterial props...
...felt a bit implicated by your assertion that Deepak Chopra, my dad, has "little familiarity with family life as most Americans live it" [FAMILY, Sept. 22]. I was not aware that drinking from the toilet, balloon animals spawned from condoms, and tongue studs constitute the American family experience. More to the point, despite having passed through my own phases of growing pains, tattoos and flunking two college courses, I have, at 22, managed to graduate from Columbia University, publish a novel, embark on my own adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching...
Pulled down raw out of the ether, the new Buddhist vibe can seem surrealistically jumbled, as a poem in a recent New Yorker acknowledged: "The huge head of Richard Gere, a tsonga blossom/ in his hair, comes floating like a Macy's/ Parade balloon above the snowcapped summit/ of sacred Kailas." But in fact intrigued Americans need not remain perplexed: they can investigate a vibrant, if small, U.S. community of believers. This does not mean the hundreds of thousands of Buddhist immigrants, who have yet to have an impact on mainstream culture. Rather, it refers to some 100,000 American...
...consumer subscribers for the hookups of America Online. That gave WorldCom, which has made some 50 acquisitions in little more than a decade, a broader range of telecom assets--from local and long-distance lines to high-speed Internet-access networks--than even mighty AT&T. Adding MCI would balloon WorldCom's revenues from $4.5 billion in 1996 to nearly $28 billion and make the company, based in Jackson, Miss., by far the leading challenger to the $52.7 billion colossus once known as Ma Bell. "With all of his transactions," says Berge Ayvazian, executive vice president of the Yankee Group...
Apple czar Steve Jobs floats a tantalizing balloon for the Mac faithful (TIME Daily...