Word: fixes
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...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done to fix...
...symptomatic patients. The rotator cuff, my particular expertise, is even more mysterious. When it's torn and symptomatic, there is measurable weakness. A big, symptomatic tear often makes it impossible even to raise one's arm to eye level, and this doesn't get better until you fix it. But then you have patients with asymptomatic tears - and they can be really big tears - who not only are pain free but have strong shoulders with full motion as well...
...city mayor must be all things to all people: traffic cop, fix-it man, novelist. Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father...
After dinner one recent night, family an friends were discussing their views on global warming. With clarity and wisdom beyond her 15 years, my daughter said, "Dad, I'm scared and angry. Your generation created this problem. What are you going to do to fix...
DIED. Glenn Ford, 90, nice-guy leading man who won consistent critical praise over a career that spanned a half-century and more than 80 films; in Los Angeles. Born in Canada to parents who insisted he learn to build and fix houses as a fallback, Ford epitomized decency and strength as the good guy in westerns, comedies and thrillers--including The Blackboard Jungle, as a teacher who inspires rebellious New York City kids; Pocketful of Miracles, with Bette Davis; and the noir classic The Big Heat, as a detective determined to track down his wife's killers...