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...nearly 5 million U.S. sufferers seek treatment. In repairing a serious groin hernia, surgeons generally stitch in a synthetic screen to cover a tear in the abdominal wall from which a portion of the intestine may protrude. Now, however, they can simply plug the opening with a cone-shaped mesh device. Plugging rather than patching the hole causes less strain on the surrounding tissue and reduces the extent of both surgery and recovery time...
...from running over the cliff. It is a strategy designed to recast the image of government: instead of the supercilious bureaucrat with mountains of paper and regulations, government now becomes the safety-patrol volunteer, the lifeguard, the friendly cop on the beat buying a lost child an ice cream cone before calling his worried parents...
...atmosphere, to which Impressionism was dedicated. Underneath the delectable surface was structure, like reefs and rocks beneath a smiling sea, and that was what Cezanne sought and obsessively analyzed--the bones and masses of the world. His famous remark about seeking in nature "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" need not be taken literally--he was never a geometric painter, still less an abstract one, though later abstractionists would build on his work. And yet his greatest paintings bear abstract constructions of tremendous amplitude and sureness...
...MOUNTAIN Arsenal cranked out 300,000 M-55 rockets, which are now stockpiled at five of the nation's chemical-weapons storage sites. Too late, the Army discovered that the design of the weapon has a potentially fatal flaw: sarin, the deadly poison that was packed into the nose cone, tends to corrode the aluminum casing. And sarin leaking into the rear chamber accelerates the decay of the stabilizing agent that prevents the rocket fuel from "auto-igniting.'' Because there is no way to safely dismantle the rocket, the deadly nerve agent and the volatile fuel have been locked...
Just three days before Christmas, Rob Butcher was fired as the New York Yankees' media-relations director because he was with family in Ohio instead of in New York City to help announce that the club had signed pitcher David Cone. A week later, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner offered Butcher his job back, but Butcher declined. This was the 11th time Steinbrenner had fired Butcher. Apparently a man can take only so much. The Yankee boss has now gone through a dozen p.r. men. All 12, oddly enough, quit...