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Whichever is true, Wednesday's display of conflicting information did nothing to relieve the longstanding questions about just how serious Cheney's coronary problems are and why he won't say more about them. Cheney had three heart attacks between 1978 and 1988, the year he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery. In July, after Bush picked Cheney as his running mate, two of his doctors issued letters giving him a clean bill of health. But it was a bill without particulars. Cheney has repeatedly refused to allow reporters to interview him or his doctors about his health, to name the numerous...
Dick Cheney's heart condition has been the subject of speculation and controversy from the moment George W. Bush picked him as his running mate. Cheney had suffered three heart attacks in 10 years, his first at age 37, and in 1988 underwent quadruple-bypass surgery to relieve blockages in his coronary arteries. From a medical perspective, the news last week that he had suffered a fourth heart attack wasn't all that surprising...
...part, Hagelin says he draws on common sense: the government should provide a $200 reimbursement for Medicare patients with high blood pressure or heart disease to spend on a treadmill and personal trainer instead of spending $50,000 on a quintuple bypass operation when the same person is deathly...
Last week the Supreme Court issued a curt three-sentence ruling denying the federal government's request to allow the Microsoft case to bypass federal appeals courts and to hear the case directly. The decision, which indefinitely pushes back the date on which the software giant may be forced to comply with an earlier ruling ordering the company to split in two, was lauded by the Microsoft camp. However, for the thousands of software companies and millions of American consumers who suffer from Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior, the decision is merely another painful protraction of the long wait...
...many of the pointers on websites offering current (which is to say copyrighted) music seem to lead only to dead ends. But Fanning figured out that if he combined a music-search function with a file-sharing system and, to facilitate communication, instant messaging, he could bypass the rats' nest of legal and technical problems that kept great music from busting out all over the World Wide...