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Clinton underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in 2004 at New York Presbyterian Hospital. That procedure was also prompted by symptoms of chest pain. Doctors took blood vessels from elsewhere in his body and grafted them onto his heart to circumvent four blocked heart arteries. In 2005, the former President underwent another operation to remove scar tissue and fluid that had built up in his body - complications of the bypass procedure. (Watch a video about Bill Clinton and Haiti...
...White House has taken action as well. On Monday, federal officials announced $78.5 million in funding to prevent the spread of Asian carp; plans include building new barriers between the Chicago canal and the Des Plaines River. (The carp may be able to bypass the existing electric barrier in the canal when water levels are high and the two waterways mix.) "We see the threat and potential impact of the Asian carp establishing themselves in the Great Lakes," says Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "We believe we have the chance to work together...
...were able to bypass problems with transportation other relief workers are facing,” Counter said. “We flew over airports that had supplies just sitting there due to transportation issues...
There was an error in TIME's 10 Questions interview with Al Roker [Dec. 7]. Roker incorrectly reports that "1 in 200" dies of complications from laparoscopic gastric bypass, the procedure he had in 2002. According to a July 2009 study by the National Institutes of Health, the mortality rate associated with this gastric bypass is about 1 in 500, or 0.2%. We agree with Roker that the decision to have surgery is an important one and should not be made "because someone on TV made that decision." It should be made because morbid obesity is a serious, life-threatening...
...Tiananmen crackdown; and - biggest of all - on Oct. 1, China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Online censorship followed each in near lockstep. China blocked YouTube in March, Twitter in June and various proxy and virtual-private-network services - used to bypass domestic blocks and access to overseas websites - ahead of the National Day celebration. China's Web censors blocked Facebook in July after unrest broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Average users in that northwestern region have been without Internet access for the past five months, a rare blackout amid China...