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Five weeks ago, the stocky old Greek, whose exuberant presence now filled his curtained-off corner of the ER, had undergone a "new old" hip replacement. Nick's artificial hip had a metal-on-metal bearing (basically a large metal ball in a metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic...
...interested in seeing this patient because I'd never done one of the new hips. My teacher had done them in the old days, thousands of them, but he abandoned them immediately and completely when the first metal-on-plastic hips came out. "It would be foolish to go back" is what he'd said 20 years ago when I asked him about the old designs - I took his word for it and, so far, have never regretted it. I also knew from my own experience, having done more than 1,000 hip surgeries by that point, that the metal...
...Bright Moves Forget about basic black this season. This page: Stella McCartney pump, $575 holtrenfrew.com) Chanel Coco's Croco 2.55 satin with gold metal handbag, $2,250 jeffreynewyork.com) Opposite page: Chloé patent-leather Bay bag, $2,365 chloe.com) Styled by Thom Driver for Halley Resources...
TOKYO The Japanese believe that yellow wallets bring riches, but gold wallets like Prada's Saffiano Metal Oro ($453) make you even richer
...designers this fall are offering a king's ransom of silk, satin, fur and jewel-like ornamentation that alone evoke the Tudor spirit. Oscar de la Renta showed ermine and chinchilla shrugs atop embroidered tulle. For Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey referenced armor with a collection of austere leather coats, metal-studded dresses and black gauntlets that would not seem out of place in the Tower of London. Rodarte featured shimmering gold dresses fit for a nascent Queen...