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...usefulness to Blair in Northern Ireland. He was brought back into government to manage the peace process after Blair dropped Mo Mowlam as Northern Ireland secretary. But Mandelson eventually ran into the same problems as Mowlam: She was regarded with suspicion by the loyalists, who began to bypass her and go directly to Blair. With Mandelson, it was the Republicans who lost confidence, but the result was the same - Blair ended up having to do all the heavy lifting himself. So Mandelson's resignation is not a loss to Northern Ireland peace process...
...Friday morning I bypass the on-site flacks and call a contact in the States to set up an interview with one of the festival headliners, the American rock band R.E.M. I go to one of the hotel meeting rooms on the second floor of the Copacabana to wait for Peter Buck, R.E.M.'s guitarist, but, while I'm waiting, Michael Stipe, the band's lead singer, pops by. His manager tells me since Buck is delayed, Stipe didn't want to keep me waiting and popped by to chat...
...through to was her husband, whose affairs saddened and angered her at the same time. She had considered divorce, but in the end, she held on, hoping Stahl would change. She had even taken several weeks off that summer to care for her husband after his quadruple-bypass surgery. "She had put up with so much and got used to it," says Dubay. "Somehow the unknown is more scary than the known...
...their pursuit of better systems, researchers are finding ingenious ways to bypass such natural body defenses as the blood-brain barrier and the macrophages of the immune system, which can block or gobble up newly administered drugs. Another problem, says M.I.T. professor of biomedical engineering Robert Langer, is adverse effects that result even when "people take prescription drugs exactly as prescribed...
...decades surgery seemed to be the best bet for the treatment of heart disease. Researchers thought of atherosclerosis, or the clogging of arteries with fatty plaques, as basically a plumbing problem. Bypass the choke points with new grafts and you would more than likely bypass any future heart attacks. Over the past five to 10 years, however, doctors have come to realize that heart disease is more complicated than that. They're not by any means ready to abandon surgery, but now they rely more heavily on different types of drugs to treat both the long-term and short-term...