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...idea seemed promising: for two whole days, the eight contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination would stop taking potshots at one another and instead travel together across the U.S., preaching party unity and raising money. The proceeds, an anticipated $2.4 million, would go to the campaign chest of the eventual winner...
...purpose of bypass surgery is, quite literally, to find a way around fat-clogged arteries in order to keep blood flowing to the heart. This is done by taking a segment of a blood vessel, usually from the leg, and grafting it into the chest, where it is used to create a detour around the obstruction. For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, the heart's principal conduit, a bypass offers the best hope of prolonging life. The procedure is also the treatment of choice for those with crippling pain due to several clogged coronary arteries...
...institute's study does not challenge these applications of surgery. Instead, it focuses on whether or not bypass operations extend the life of patients with less severe heart disease. Some of those selected for the study were suffering from mild to moderate angina, the viselike chest pains that signal a decreased supply of blood to the heart; others had a history of one or more heart attacks but did not have recurrent chest pains. The 780 participants, all under age 65, were randomly treated either with bypass surgery or with drugs, such as nitroglycerin and diuretics, that ease pain...
Nonetheless, bypass surgery did have some advantages. Says University of Ala bama Cardiologist William Rogers, a principal investigator in the study: "There are striking differences when one looks at the quality of life." Indeed, the bypass patients suffered fewer chest pains, had greater endurance on exercise tests and required less medication...
...Eliot thought otherwise: "Evening quickens faintly in the street,/ Wakening the appetites/ of life in some/ And to others bringing the Boston Evening Transcript." Yet if the news is so deadening, why does it feel like a resuscitation, a thump on the chest to get the day on beat? Merely the expectation of the morning bulletins seems to place the body on alert. No, it is not beauty, wisdom or deep knowledge, but it is the news, a million panicked animals bounding up the stairs. The blood, the senses, everything races...