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...coronary bypass is unquestionably the most frequently performed piece of radical major surgery in the U.S. Some 25,000 times a year, doctors open the chest of a heart-disease victim to implant a piece of one of the patient's own veins or arteries to carry blood around an obstruction in the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle. But is the bypass operation always necessary? Not according to Dr. Henry Russek, a professor of cardiology at New York Medical College. At a conference on cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston last week, Russek claimed that...
Russek's remarks touched a raw nerve among the surgeons attending the meeting. Boosters of the bypass operation credit it with saving at least 60,000 lives-most of them in the past five years -and offering new hope to heart-disease victims who might otherwise become cardiac cripples. The operation is now being performed at some 600 U.S. hospitals, and many surgeons believe that it should be used even more frequently...
...life time." Even the extremists realize that the people most directly concerned are those who live on the West Bank and those who have lived for up to 25 years in squalid refugee camps. These Palestinians, some 2,000,000 in all, may decide to bypass the commando organizations and accept the offer of a Palestinian state. Jordan's King Hussein has offered to hold a plebiscite in the West Bank on the future political status of the Palestinians. "These are the people who want the Israeli boots out," says a P.L.O. source. "And if they...
...great rift erupted between PBS and CPB early this year when the CPB itself attempted to exert creative control over programming. In the past, CPB had been a patron of the television arts, and a rubber stamp for the creative talents of professionals at PBS. But Loomis sought to bypass PBS and its "Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities. CPB's first offering to public stations was 21 hours of strictly non-controversial coverage...
Political observers are currently having a field day dissecting the student's psyche in search of the answer. But in focusing on the student, they often bypass obvious features of the university itself, and the university's relationship to its environs. Any explanation for why Harvard students never affected local elections as their peers at Berkeley once did, mandates a closer look at the universities themselves and their relationships with the local communities...