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...details of Roach's white-collar crime spree--buying a $7,000 belt buckle, spending $30,000 on a London jaunt and missing her flight home in the process, jiggering her expense account and pawning her purchases in an attempt to hide her splurges--might and probably will provide fodder for a made-for-TV movie. And the ending will be, as demanded by the genre, upbeat. The employer Roach cheated paid her $150,000 a year. She now has a similar consulting job with another company and earns...
Oaks has good reason to trust his surgeon. With more than 3,000 open-heart operations and some 400 transplants under his belt, Michler, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, is no novice. Then again, today's procedure will be no ordinary bypass. It will be one of the first in the country to replace the surgeon's hands with 2-ft.-long robotic arms. The metallic limbs will enter the patient's body through the narrow gaps between the ribs, cutting holes no bigger than a nickel--a far cry from the usual...
...SEAT BELT, STUPID The U.S. ranks behind nearly every other developed country when it comes to buckling up, according to a report by the National Safety Council. While parents are careful to strap in infants and toddlers, teens too often go unbuckled, it concluded. The council handed out grades for seat-belt use and gave 16 states a D or an F. Only California and New Mexico earned...
...week for Sino-U.S. relations, with Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian planning a visit?er, transit?through the States, and China charging an American citizen with espionage. Then the entrance of a new superpower suddenly made that old bipolar paradigm seem as irrelevant as a WBO title belt...
Protect your head from injury. Trauma to the head and even a brief loss of consciousness can eat away at precious brain reserve. The association of strokes and Alzheimer's is even stronger. So wear a helmet when biking, buckle your seat belt in the car and reduce your risk of stroke by quitting smoking, exercising regularly and keeping your blood pressure down...