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...love what they do and pushing the envelope, just for the sake of doing it better, faster or especially these days, smaller, has its own attraction. Surgeons who sew arteries went from repairing ones you could see across the room to ones you can barely see with the naked eye. Heart operations, in which they sawed your sternum in half and stopped your heart with ice-water, are now done with a neat little 3-in. cut under your rib while your warm ticker beats on merrily. We did our total hips and knees through smaller and smaller incisions until...
...most cases, students who have attempted suicide recognize that they would be better off elsewhere, and the majority of withdrawals “end up being voluntary,” according to Barreira. In the few cases where students and university mental health professionals don’t see eye-to-eye, it seems illogical to take power out of the hands of experts who likely have the student’s best interests in mind...
...operating (as well as thousands of illegal mines), supervision by government authorities is virtually nonexistent. To maximize profits, mine owners ramp up production far above sanctioned levels, exceed the regulated number of miners and neglect safety equipment and procedures. Mine owners often bribe local officials into turning a blind eye to their practices and have been known to ship corpses to other provinces to escape regulations requiring them to report any accident in which more than three miners...
...create an entire set of clubs tailored to each player's specifications. The following morning the golfers are met at the nearby Aviara golf course with a monogrammed bag and their new set of custom-fit clubs, all ready for 18 holes of green-grass testing under the watchful eye of Peterson. After lunch, the club technicians get back to work, tackling any lie, loft or shaft adjustments that the round reveals...
...extracurricular activities in high school was devoted entirely to keeping other guys away from Kirsten, a hobby that she did not seem too thrilled about. I soon discovered that I spent too time scaring off “undesirables” and should instead have kept my eye on people like my best friend...