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...BYPASS SURGERY? One of the most common operations on the arteries may not be necessary, at least in some patients. The surgery, called endarterectomy, cleans out a narrowed carotid artery to prevent a stroke. But a report shows that in patients who don't have any other symptoms, the risk of a stroke originating in the carotid artery is the same with or without an endarterectomy...
When we can bypass the networks and easily zap ads, traditional commercials will become less and less profitable. This means you'll have to pay for TV with either money or information. Pay-per-view--for movies and sports--will become more common, as will subscriptions. (Blockbuster has already made a deal with TiVo to beam movies to set-top boxes.) When your TV becomes a massive video archive, you'll even pay for reruns...
LAWSUIT SETTLED. Between DANA CARVEY, 45, impressionist comedian, and surgeon Elias Hanna, over a botched double-bypass operation in 1998; for an undisclosed sum, which will be given to charity; in San Francisco...
...mortems, from James Earl Ray and Eugene Victor Debs to William Shakespeare and Kilgore Trout. At the outset of this fictional narrative, the author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions writes "My first near-death experience was an accident, a botched anesthesia during a triple-bypass." He finds the event so fascinating that he decides to elicit the assistance of Dr. Kevorkian in order to explore the afterlife and report his findings to a humanity so deathly afraid of death. Vonnegut's accounts, which were originally composed as three-minute bits on WNYC public radio...
...city councillors voted to bypass a public hearing on a future salary hike for themselves and members of the school committee, deciding instead to go directly to a second reading of the amendment next month...