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...even cover Dr. Dean Ornish's yoga, meditation and diet program for reversing coronary heart disease. Says Ornish: "When you compare the cost of an angioplasty to the cost of this program, the insurers are saving $5.55 for every dollar they spend. Moreover, 90% of the people recommended for bypass have been able to avoid it." Chiropractors, long the whipping boys of the medical establishment, are licensed to practice in all 50 states, their services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, workers' compensation and, in all but 10 states, private insurers...
...been a sick man for years, and his need for heart surgery has been apparent to foreign specialists for months. He did not say exactly what the operation would be, though a prominent Russian heart surgeon later told the Interfax news agency the President would have a bypass. Yeltsin aides said he may consider temporarily surrendering his powers to Chernomyrdin, as the constitution requires in the event of extended incapacitation...
...business is direct-to-video, low-budget narrative features that bypass theaters and have their world premiere in your 27,000 local video stores. DTV began in the infancy of video, about a decade ago, and now has its own traditions, stars and fans...
...more, that was the thought in Dole's mind as well. His other potential choices were not panning out. For a while he had been keen to reach back to the Bush years for former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but the onetime Wyoming Congressman, who has had a coronary bypass, wanted to remain in retirement. Michigan Governor John Engler got on Dole's bad side when he urged Newt Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government, a move Dole thought rightly would come back to haunt Republicans. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, leader of another state Dole badly needs in November...
...definitely views this book as a comeback with a vengeance," says his editor, Jonathan Karp. Five years ago, Puzo had quadruple-bypass surgery, followed by a long and gloomy convalescence. His book in progress, a saga about the Borgias, stalled. He thought he might never write again. But transpose the Machiavellian city-state of the Borgias to a fortress in the Bronx, add a summer palace on Long Island and playgrounds in Las Vegas and Hollywood, and--Ecco!--the godfather of Mafia fiction is back in business...