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...right through the plates. As a last resort, doctors recommend surgery to repair the joint. Until recently that meant a three-hour operation and a two-inch scar running in front of the ear. Now surgeons are increasingly using arthroscopy, a technique originally devised to correct knee damage. They insert the arthroscope, a thin telescopic tube, through an incision in the jaw and use tiny instruments to wash out debris, reposition the disk or cut away scar tissue. The operation takes about an hour and leaves a mark no larger than a freckle. Proponents believe the availability of the procedure...
Scientists someday might also be able to design a permanent cure for VHL, the researcher said. The cure might involve the creation of a special virus that VHL sufferers would be infected with. The virus, known as a "shuttle vector," would insert correctly functioning copies of the gene into a person's chromosomes, Seizinger said...
...logic behind a line item veto is simple. By putting the entire federal budget into a single omnibus spending package, which the president must ratify in its entirety or veto (thereby shutting down the complete federal bureaucracy), legislators can insert a number of pork-barrel expenditures to please their constituents and improve their re-election chances. That is simply the nature of the legislative beast...
Both sides have agreed to insert a clause into the contract prohibiting discrimination against employees on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation, Fortes said...
Back when city planning was still a matter of deciding which neighborhood to carve up with the new freeway and how many grim apartment towers to insert in a newly leveled megalot, the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency decided to move its offices. The agency was stuck in an unfashionable downtown building on grubby, declining Spring Street, so in 1955 the city's official redevelopers fled to new quarters...