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...premier frequent flyer. He has coached in Saudi Arabia, searched for a point guard in Montenegro, evaded Yugoslav border police to scout a power forward and twice visited North Korea to peek at a 7ft. 9-in. center. One September day in 1998, Ronzone was conducting a hoops clinic in Shanghai when he received an invitation to an 18th-birthday party. The birthday boy was quick, graceful--and 7 ft. 3 in. tall. Ronzone accepted. "The parents were there, maybe a few Chinese officials," Ronzone recalls. "We're all stuffed into this apartment the size of a room...
...cited for an "extreme DUI." According to the police report, a sobriety test registered her blood-alcohol level at 0.20, more than twice the state's legal limit, and she proved unable to stand on one leg. Ross, who last year checked herself into a Malibu, Calif., rehab clinic, denied that she had been drinking and said she had merely got lost on her way to rent a video...
House-call and mobile vets offer distinct services. House-call vets come into your home and perform their tasks there. They are required by law to have an agreement with a clinic for services they can't perform on site such as spaying, neutering and declawing. Mobile vets have vans or RVs for treating animals. They often can do lab work and perform surgeries...
Seidman, who is a social studies concentrator, said she plans to attend medical school in the future and eventually work in a small community clinic. But she said that in the meantime she is looking for a new experience...
...offer an entirely new benefit: detecting heart disease. Tiny calcium deposits in the breast's arteries may be an early sign of trouble in the arteries of the heart. In a 10-year study presented last week to the Radiological Society of North America, Mayo Clinic researchers reported a 20% increase in the risk of heart disease in women with a significant number of breast-arterial calcifications. (These calcifications--streaky white lines on a mammogram--are not to be confused with the kind of calcium deposits that appear elsewhere in the breast and may signal cancer.) No one suggests that...