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...Forceps! Scalpel! Robot!" was an informative article [MEDICINE, June 4], but the idea of having a robot operate on me for heart-bypass surgery isn't very appealing. Too many things could go wrong in the operating room. What if the person controlling the robot made a mistake or the robot malfunctioned? I could not take the risk. Granted a doctor could mess up just as easily, but I would rather have my life in the hands of a human than in the hands of a machine. SHERESA DARLENE NOWELL La Russell...
...Though Cheney is trying to be reassuring, for him it probably is almost routine by now. Once more through the chart: This is the vice president's third hospitalization since the election. He had his first heart attack in 1978, quadruple bypass surgery in 1988, and his latest, fourth heart attack in November (complete with wire stent to open a 90-percent-blocked artery...
...flooding the discount bins at merchandise clubs. Of course, Klein didn't seem to have any such complaints until he had trouble finding a buyer--including negotiating with Warnaco--for his suddenly unfashionable company. Warnaco, in its view, was simply responding to market forces, as more consumers continued to bypass department stores and their not-so-exclusive brands. Warehouse clubs are the only thriving retail sector, with an increasingly upscale clientele that's hard to ignore...
...were stuck dealing with paperwork while their dishonest brokers skipped town or filed for bankruptcy. Although NASD is doing a better job of tracking award payments, the agency can't force defunct brokers to cough up anything. Starting this month, however, investors in such cases will be allowed to bypass the mandatory arbitration process and ask a judge to start freezing assets before the deadbeats make themselves scarce...
...Mary did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ('When the values go up-up-up/ And the prices go down-down- down') and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act, and their marriage. (Ford died, at 52, in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery; it was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall of Fame in 1988. At the induction ceremony, Jeff Beck said, 'I've copied more licks off Les Paul than I'd care to admit...