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...Best Picture for 1950 Is... The best way to determine the quality of a movie is to see how it holds up over the long haul, says Lance Morrow...
...lawyers. Last year the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon launched a class action suit on behalf of DVT sufferers against several major airlines. Attorney Lars Lewis of Paris is taking legal action against four airlines for a thrombosis he claims he developed following a series of medium-haul flights across Europe. "Airlines aren't sufficiently informing passengers about the risks," he says. "There is a link between air travel and thrombosis...
...Johannesburg and London. John Belstead, an accident and emergency consultant at Britain's Ashford Hospital, which receives emergency cases from Heathrow Airport, estimates that the condition affects as many as 2,000 travelers in the U.K. each year, and that 15 of those die from DVT developed on long-haul flights. A survey of passenger accidents at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport revealed that from 1994 to 1998, DVT-related incidents accounted for 27% of all first aid treatment. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle...
...just airlines and doctors who are responding to the growing furor over DVT. Last month Sigvaris, a Swiss hosiery company, introduced special ?anti-thrombosis hose,? which it is marketing to long-haul flyers. And Club Direct, a British travel insurer, recently altered its standard insurance policy to include a special DVT provision?the firm says it will cover legal expenses of up to $36,000 to help a passenger sue an airline in the event of DVT-related death or injury. Some people can find a potential silver lining in any cloud...
Living with heart disease over the long haul usually produces a disciplined and grumpily abstemious character who learns, in time, a sense of quiet gratitude. I guess I'm not terribly worried about Cheney, although he could stand to lose some weight and work on his muscle tone. He moves sometimes with alarming heaviness, like Willy Loman after a long day. What he should do is think of heart disease as a good way to get in shape...