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That helps explain why, at a rough guess, some doctors estimate that 45% of all sedation today is handled by people other than anesthesiologists. "There are tens of thousands, maybe millions, of sedation procedures done satisfactorily by other physicians," Guidry says. Still, a 2003 study published by Dr. Hector Vila, chief of anesthesiology at the University of South Florida's College of Medicine, showed 10 times the risk of death or permanent injury for surgery performed in doctors' offices rather than in ambulatory surgery centers. The difference, Vila concluded, was largely due to lax anesthesia procedures. In an extreme example...
...media overlooked that the study's underlying test data was from 1988, meaning this tiny skew toward a teacher's sex was evident among 8th graders almost 20 years ago. We have no idea if it's still true today. Nor could the study's author, Thomas Dee, convincingly explain why this "teacher gender effect" appeared in science class but disappeared in math class...
...even Bush's defenders could explain away the fatal flaw in the U.S.'s post-9/11 strategy. In his State of the Union address in January 2002, less than five months after the terrorists had struck, Bush directed his fire against what he called an "axis of evil"--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--which he accused of sponsoring terrorism and "seeking weapons of mass destruction." Yet not one of those countries had been directly implicated in the 9/11 attacks...
...harder time. A multipart installation by Betty Woodman, the ceramic artist whose work is full of liquid lines, looks like somebody dropped a Matisse into The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. And Libeskind's plunging vectors will never be the ideal resting place for Vermeer or Monet--which might explain why the Denver museum will continue to house most of its older art in the more conventional galleries of the Ponti building. Daniel Kohl, the museum's installation designer, has taken on the job of mediating between Libeskind's building and the art, mostly by way of partitions that softly mimic...
...game show is impossible to explain. But it's dramatic. Unfortunately I think it's gonna be a hit, and I'll wind up killing myself...