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Choice of surgery is only the first of many decisions faced by patients and doctors. None are simple, and women sometimes get the impression that there are as many variations in therapy as there are doctors. The key question following surgery, however, is whether the cancer has spread. It is...
How titillating the Corleones seemed in 1972 and '74, when Francis Ford Coppola turned Puzo's best seller into two Oscar-winning Godfather films. Here was a family of murderers viewed with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for...
Transplants from living donors have been performed with kidneys and parts of the pancreas and liver, but never before with a lung. Lungs taken from cadavers are regularly transplanted into adults, but for reasons not well understood, children's bodies are more likely to reject them. If the new procedure...
No Lie: There was a scalper in the parking lot Saturday afternoon, hawking tickets at the top of his lungs.
Bolivar died in 1830 at age 47, probably from tuberculosis. The Nobel- prizewinning novelist only suggests the cause of death, allowing the disease to spread subtly into metaphor. As ex-President Bolivar passes through corrupting cities and pestilential villages on the way to retirement, his dream of "one nation, free...