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...later days, the Merlin of Mahwah could hardly play with the toys he invented. Arthritis froze all the digits on his right hand and all but two on his left. His fingers, which once flew over the frets at Mach 2, could hardly do the walking. "You know, I can't do what I used to do when I was 20 or 30," he told David John Farinella. "With the arthritis I got - Christ, I got no fingers. But what I got, I play. A knuckle here, a knuckle there. You forget about the arthritis and everything else when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...interview with Frank Beacham, Paul joked that a lot of people didn't know he played a guitar. "They think I am one," he said. He was something more: a genius of a tinkerer, with machines and music - the Edison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...Then Ford takes over with her menthol-smooth voice, multiplied into three-part harmony by Paul's studio gizmonics. She coos, "Somewhere there's mu-u-u-sic," coaxing four syllables out of the word by gliding over them rather than hiccuping through them. She wants the listener to know this is an up-tempo love song, not a stuttering novelty. In the bridge - "There is no moon above, and love is far away too" - she lightly swings "above" and "and love," almost gulping each first syllable. You expect her to do the same with "is far," but she smartly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...leave behind are in the same region as the surgery site, and therefore will most likely be destroyed by the radiation treatment that follows. "Radiation is very good," says Dr. Larry Norton, a breast-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "We do know that if you don't irradiate a breast after surgery, you get local recurrence." (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why MRIs Don't Lead to Better Cancer-Survival Rates | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...pick up about 3% to 5% of tumors that mammograms miss, but there is little evidence suggesting whether those additional tumors are malignant or benign. To find out the true benefit of MRI, he says, more research needs to be conducted. "Without randomized trials, we really don't know everything," says Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why MRIs Don't Lead to Better Cancer-Survival Rates | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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