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...naming any names, but there are people out there with health problems who might be good running mates. They have to be in good health." Among those on the "short list" who may now be out of the running are Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, who has had quadruple heart bypass surgery; Michigan Governor John Engler, who has a weight problem; and former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who suffered a mild heart attack in 1978 and underwent heart bypass surgery. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
RECOVERING. STUDS TERKEL, 84, Pulitzer-prizewinning author; from quintuple bypass surgery; in Chicago...
...paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five years later, at the now relatively young age of sixty -three...
...School of Education's closed search process, known as a "target of opportunity" search, allows the candidate to bypass the normal process of culling names and go straight to a review of their qualifications in committee, as long as the faculty approves...
...rising tide of riverboat revenues has not lifted all boats. The Casino Queen parking lot is surrounded by a high-security fence with guards in two watchtowers and on the ground. A new stop on the MetroLink commuter train, which deposits visitors at the boat, was designed to bypass the heart of East St. Louis, which even now has large tracts of urban desolation and 1,700 abandoned buildings.. "You have not seen a lot of gambling revenue trickle into the neighborhood," says community activist Alandra Byrd. But the casino has set up a $2.5 million foundation to provide...