Word: donee
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MASTECTOMIES To judge from the rush to outlaw "drive-by" mastectomies, you'd think we faced a crisis. But outpatient mastectomies (as they're known off the Senate floor) aren't really a serious national problem. Roughly 15% of mastectomies are done on an outpatient basis today, up from 2% in 1991. Naturally there are some abuses. But as with everything from cataracts to cartilage, technical leaps often make outpatient surgery the safer, cheaper option. Johns Hopkins University, for example, one of the nation's top breast-surgery centers, does mostly outpatient work and reports fewer infections and happier patients...
...wondered whether life had been too strange and soft to mold him into a harder person, one who could move into the world with force and meaning, marshaling all the things he had to make a difference. But that takes time. You wonder what he would have done...
Still, I must applaud the craft that obviously went into the film. The agility and movements of the muppets were smooth, and the voices were wonderfully done, especially Pep the Prawn's Spanich accent: He almost made the show worthwhile. The muppets' costumes were realistic to the point of being almost comical. For example, Ms. Piggy's news-anchor suit seemed to come directly out of Connie Chung's wardrobe. But that wasn't enough to keep me from checking my watch every few minutes...
...players want to learn how things are done. [But] once they're on the ice, I don't control them...
...numbers for this cut are based on mandatory spending caps that Congress and the White House put in to get the budget deal done in 1997," Branegan says. "They were just stopgaps. For the Republicans to say that they?ll stick to them for the next 10 years - when they?ve already signaled this year that they?re headed out the window - is just unrealistic. Any tax cut based on those figures will be unable to be paid for without deep cuts that neither side is willing to make." The White House knows it, the Senate knows it, and judging...