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...Horgan thinks that as natural-orifice surgery becomes more familiar and as more procedures are successfully performed, the acceptance of it will grow. "In 1999, 100% of gallbladders were [removed] in open surgery. In 2008, 98% are done laparoscopically. In five years, either our approach or something similar to what we're doing will become standard care," he says. "This technique is changing the way we think about surgery...
...Kelley said. “I can’t put any of it in context.” He also said he was a “bit disappointed” in the lack of discussion on the implications of the district’s Parent Attitudes Study done last year. The results of the study, released in May of last year, reported that 32 percent of parents who withdrew their children from the Cambridge Public Schools system did so because of a perceived “lack of quality education/academics,” and 11 percent withdrew because...
...Watson says, “pirates get things done...
...Rendell, 64, is a ferocious advocate for Clinton, and he doesn't hesitate to complain about the raw deal he says she has gotten from the media. In a recent appearance on Fox News-not exactly considered friendly territory for the Democrats-he congratulated the network for having done "the fairest job [and] remained the most objective of all the cable networks." In an interview with me, the governor was again in media-critic mode. "It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election," Rendell said, referring to the show's now famous skit lampooning the media...
...bargained for. "I established a relationship with one of these men, who happened to be one of the most vilified South African serial killers," she says. "The more I got to know him, the more conflicted I became about defining prime evil. Although I knew what he had done, I found my initial impression of him slowly peeling away...