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Nelson spoke next, stressing the fact that the function of the economy is dependent on outside factors...
...study, conducted by Dr. Mark Newman and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center, tracked 261 patients and periodically gave them standardized tests of cognitive function. Many recovered fully in the weeks after surgery, but about a third did not. In general, patients who were older, less well educated or who had previously experienced mental confusion in the aftermath of the surgery appeared to be at greatest risk of a long-term decline. (Vice President Dick Cheney was 47 when he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in 1988.) What surprised Newman's team most, however, was that the rate of impairment, after...
...type of bypass procedure that allows surgeons to operate directly on a beating heart without having to resort to a heart-lung machine. Such off-pump surgery requires great technical skill, however, and isn't an option for everyone. (The best candidates have stable heart function and discrete, easily accessible blockages.) Still unknown is whether off-pump grafts last as long as conventional ones or even if the operation makes any real difference to the brain...
...Lamour was around in the first six "Road" movies, but her function was what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the trigger to the plot, the prize that Bing usually won from Bob. Women had to be in Crosby movies, the way songs and a standard-issue villain did. But these were jut narrative conventions. Bing was, if not a man's man, a guy's guy; women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between...
...course function and which students it serves should be included," Pedersen said...