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...there has been an enormous increase in less drastic procedures. Cardiologists are performing many more angiograms and other invasive tests than they did a couple of decades ago. Plastic surgeons are doing more liposuction procedures and partial face-lifts. Gastroenterologists are doing more colonoscopies and endoscopies--snaking a tube in from one end or the other of the digestive tract to take pictures. "Where 15 years ago endoscopy was a rare procedure," says Guidry, "now everybody's expected to have one periodically. There's tons of stuff that just wasn't done before...
Americans stopped investing exclusively in real estate and got back to the serious business of technological innovation. Congress passed a low-cost, universal health-care system and a new federal sales tax, which allowed a drastic reduction in income tax without the huge deficits that had plagued the Bush years...
...funder Rapoport. "The worst mistake she can make is to move to the right. She's going to lose a lot of the enthusiasm of the people who can get her elected." But others point out that by supporting a statute banning flag burning, she helped defeat a more drastic constitutional amendment that would have done the same thing--very much like what her husband did in 1995 when he produced a balanced budget, horrifying the left with 25% cuts in domestic spending. That helped take the political momentum out of a balanced-budget constitutional amendment. "Do you pretend...
...outrage at the mass puppy culling hasn't been so successfully controlled. The topic is now the second-most discussed issue on China's largest online portal, Sina. The Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday that 81% of the 127,780 people who voted on their website opposed the drastic measures. Netizens were particularly irate that even dogs who had been vaccinated against rabies - 4,000 in Mouding alone, according to local statistics - were also killed. For his part, a local Mouding official maintained that the vaccine was not 100% effective, thereby justifying the extreme action...
...spray painting or etching copper pipes for identity purposes. Meanwhile, companies like American Scrap Metal in Dallas check photo IDs and turn away scrap that looks too new. Birmingham's Standard Heating & Air Conditioning Co. and Dalco are even starting to attach alarms to AC units. That may sound drastic, until you realize that in the South air conditioners are a life or death issue. "Without air conditioning, nobody would live in this hell hole," said Points...