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...doctor's office--yes, walk--and are free of much of their pain. To be sure, nucleoplasty is not for everyone. According to Dr. Yung Chen, director of the Stanford Interventional Spine Center in Stanford, Calif., the ideal candidate is someone who has only a mildly herniated disk--meaning the damaged disk hasn't completely ruptured or extruded too far outside its normal confines within the spinal column...
...have a large, widely dispersed maintenance staff. Bell Canada's workers, for instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with a particular router, say, he can switch on his video camera and beam live images to a supervisor who can then advise corrective measures...
...music industry is lucky to have such an ambitious artist, for DiFranco’s new album is a truly fascinating mix of styles and sounds, always keeping the listener interested and involved. In half of the songs on each disk, Ani becomes a veritable magician, playing a a small orchestra’s worth of instruments. In the rest, Ani is accompanied by the live band she performs with while on the road, as well as musical guests Maceo Parker and John Hassell on horns and Lloyd Maines on pedal steel...
...shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...
...astronomical ingrates, Pluto has recently fallen out of favor. Two years ago Pluto was almost reduced to a mere "minor planet" by the International Astronomers Union, and last February New York's Rose Center for Earth and Space left Pluto off the list entirely, relegating him instead to a disk of icy comets known as the Kuiper Belt. One year later, passions still rage in the astronomical community over this manifest injustice to an honest planet...