Word: bone
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...anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC in Charleston, where someone misidentified Duke as a PHP contractor. One possibility is that PHP's contract with Duke to do bone-marrow transplants was misconstrued as a liver contract. Another is that Physician's Health Plan was confused with another provider that is also sometimes referred to as PHP: Partners National Health Plan, a North Carolina insurer that does have a liver-transplant contract with Duke. "It's an alphabet soup...
...return of Jonathan Demme, who directed Hollywood's ultimate psychological thriller, The Silence of the Lambs. The Silence of the Lambs was a showcase of visual ferocity, superb camera prowess and raw lyrical power; Demme told the story in such riveting fashion that the film still chills to the bone, even today. Beloved is his first film since Philadelphia in 1993, and while he cannot quite capture the essence of the book here, he still demonstrates the ample talent that helped him win an Academy Award. Demme is still a master of camerawork, as he stitches together a rich array...
...tough for a university to provide service at a rate that's competitive with what consumers pay unless you take the cost of the back bone down. The business model is challenging," Summerall says...
Last season the energy never waned. Down 12-8 in the fourth quarter in a bone-chilling rain against Princeton, then-sophomore Mike Giampaolo kicked two fourth-quarter field goals--including a career-long 43-yard game-winner--to pull victory from the jaws of defeat...
After donating bone marrow to her brother, who was battling the leukemia that eventually took his life, Stauffer took time off from school last fall to spend time with...