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Your archrivals in the American League East, the New York Yankees, have a new manager, and with George Steinbrenner's sons taking over the day-to-day operations, new owners running the show. What's your gut reaction to what they've done, and where you see them going this year...
...number of knee replacements done annually in the U.S. will jump 525% by 2030. You read correctly: 525%. This prediction comes out of a paper presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Hip replacements? Those will more than double, rising from 285,000 to 573,000. And the money spent on these procedures is expected to reach $65.2 billion by 2015, putting a huge burden on federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, which pay for about 60% of U.S. joint replacements...
This month, in Jerusalem, the Israel Museum features two new exhibitions that illuminate those dark days. "Looking for Owners" examines the sleuthing done by France to return artworks stolen during World War II to their owners, and shows 53 of the recovered paintings, while "Orphaned Art" presents 50 pieces of art that were looted from Holocaust victims and remain unclaimed. Both exhibitions, says James Snyder, director of the museum, are "about the same emotional subject - loss, and the sadness over a lost way of life...
...your newfound Christianity-and turn to religious writing-affected your book sales? -Dan Karns, Denver, Colo.Book sales are a situation where you find out things over time. As far as I know, Christ the Lord has done very well-perhaps even better than the last two Vampires novels. I don't think there has been any effect. It has been a fairly smooth transition...
...liked it a lot. The economist has devoted almost every waking hour since July working as McCain's unpaid senior policy adviser. "It is the hardest thing I have ever done," says Holtz-Eakin, 50. "I can live for an extended period of time on Twizzlers and Diet Coke...