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...start with just the comix, which remain the heart of the show, even if they must share equal time and space with booths like the one selling swords and weaponry. San Diego Con is the only place where nearly all the American comic publishers gather under one roof. Consequently it becomes like a dense star that pulls creators of every genre into its orbit. Fans can go crazy trying to find them all, from the venerable Will Eisner (who was previewing his latest book "Fagin the Jew") to Harvey Pekar (stumping for the "American Splendor" movie) to Alex Ross (previewing...
...change operations fall into this category? Some doctors believe that prospective transsexuals really are born into the wrong body; the surgery is therefore corrective. Others argue with equal force that gender dysphoria, as it is known, is a psychiatric affliction and that mutilating the body to fit the afflicted psyche is to inflict a double injury on the patient. The area is gray enough, and the controversy serious enough, to leave the matter, as we have, to the conscience of the individual physician...
...nutritionists, who know all fats are not created equal, that's good news. Unsaturated fats (those that are liquid at room temperature and contain fewer hydrogen atoms) are comparatively benign, but saturated fats (solid at room temperature with bonds filled, or saturated, with hydrogen) are notorious artery cloggers...
...weekends were spent at Kai Tak. "I arrived for the first time in Hong Kong via a Runway 13 approach, and it never ceased to amaze me how close you got to the houses," he says. "It's a special place. There is nowhere in the world to equal it." Meanwhile, his friend David England had worked on the design of the Airport Railway Link and his Kowloon Bay office overlooked Kai Tak's southern runway. "I kept a brass telescope on my desk," England recollects, "and my colleagues soon got used to me breaking off mid-conversation to look...
...However, they should require a driving test, at perhaps 70, and a doctor's signature indicating the applicant has no physical problems that could lead to accidents. Undoubtedly, many seniors would not like it, but it would lower the number of accidents seniors cause seniors which is currently nearly equal to the number teens cause. Tara Nicholson Hutchinson, Kans...