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...sang. After London's Royal Opera House fired soprano DEBORAH VOIGT for being too portly for her signature role, Ariadne, in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in 2004, opera fans feared that the last refuge of the plus-size artist was gone. Two years later, Voigt has had gastric-bypass surgery and lost 135 lbs. (the equivalent, roughly, of one Mariah Carey) and the Royal Opera has rehired her for the 2007-08 season. Maybe the Royal Ballet will hire her next...
...greater risk of dying than those who were simply obese. That finding should spur doctors to be more aggressive about diagnosing and treating those ailments in their heavier patients. It might also help extremely obese women who are considering the risks and benefits of taking such drastic steps as gastric-bypass surgery...
...hotel rooms, but costs can climb if there are complications. [This article contains a table and a map. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Procedure U.S. Insurer's cost U.S. Retail price India Thailand Singapore Angioplasty $25,704 to $37,128 $57,262 to $82,711 11000 13000 13000 Gastric bypass $27,717 to $40,035 $47,988 to $69,316 11000 15000 15000 Heart bypass $54,741 to $79,071 $122,424 to $176,835 10000 12000 20000 Heart-valve replacement (single) $71,401 to $103,136 $159,326 to $230,138 9500 10500 13000 Hip replacement...
...stomach his actions at the event. In a letter to the Crimson, Skomarovsky asserted all excretions landed in a plastic bag and “not a molecule of stomach content ended up anywhere else.” For this article, however, Skomarovsky failed to project any information or gastric juices—despite FM’s quest to get to the bottom of the situation, he did not return repeated calls or e-mails...
...small scab on the right side of the President's nose. It was described by White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as the result of "skin irritation, a gathering of skin, a piling up of skin," possibly aggravated by "an allergic reaction" to adhesive tape that had held a naso-gastric tube in place following Reagan's surgery last month for colon cancer. Actually, it was a bit more than that, as the President himself finally admitted. "I had, well, I guess for want of a better word, a pimple," he explained last week. "I was informed that it has been...