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...closings. It was like a snow day in Mount Kisco, with the school busses rolling early, but it was 81 degrees and pleasant. Very strange. And then, in the large parking lot, as I held Caroline's hand and we made our way to Belizzi Pizza for her post-dentist reward, I noticed another odd thing. Kisco lies 15 miles north of Northern Westchester Airport, a stone's throw further from LaGuardia and another from Kennedy. There are few distractions here, but there's always an airplane or four overhead. There are always vapor streams patterning the sky. Today...
Early in the week it looked certain that a bipartisan bill making it easy for patients to sue their HMOs would pass the House. Republican Charlie Norwood, a dentist turned Congressman and a leading voice on the issue, wasn't bowing to constant pressure from Bush. As Norwood shuttled back and forth between the White House and his allies--including Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy--he promised them he wouldn't sell...
...Early in the week it looked certain that a bipartisan bill making it easy for patients to sue their HMOs would pass the House. Republican Charlie Norwood, a dentist turned Congressman and a leading voice on the issue, wasn't bowing to constant pressure from Bush. As Norwood shuttled back and forth between the White House and his allies - including Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy - he promised them he wouldn't sell...
...heart doctors remember all too well what happened to the handful of patients who were given artificial hearts in the 1980s. Each of them was tethered to a large external compressor that powered the device through tubes into the body. The first recipient, a retired dentist named Barney Clark, developed serious infections that ravaged his body. The artificial pump also triggered a lot of blood clots. The long, lingering death of one man in particular, William Schroeder, who was kept alive for 620 days with much of his brain destroyed, soured many physicians and the public on the artificial heart...
...budget of $208 million. No one knew how well a jingoistic American anthem would sound in the important overseas markets, "so we had to figure zero for Japan," says Disney studio chief Peter Schneider. He would later ask Bay to reshoot an inflammatory scene in which a civilian Japanese dentist working in Hawaii was depicted as a spy for his homeland...