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Just a few miles from central London, home to the spectacular new Tate Modern and million-dollar apartments that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain, Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former BBC electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he was admitted to a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London, one of the top 40 in Britain...
Just a few kilometers from central London - home to the spectacular new Tate Modern gallery, million-dollar apartments and thronged restaurants that reflect the prosperous, optimistic side of Tony Blair's Britain - Paddy Brunton spent his final days in a rather different country. Brunton, 80, a former bbc electrician, developed blood clots in his heart and lungs in February. After an eight-hour wait for a bed, he found himself in a 20-patient ward at the Whittington Hospital in north London...
...National Center for Advanced Surgery and Robotics in London, Ont., believes that robots' minimally invasive techniques could vastly improve fetal surgery's current 90% failure rate, which he says is primarily a result of the trauma placed on the womb by traditional surgical techniques. "Robots aren't just million-dollar sewing machines," says Boyd. "They are bringing a real revolution in heart surgery...
...have gotten their senator, John Breaux, to propose an amendment they're itching to get passed: allowing investments in rare coins that are traded by brokers to be put in individual retirement accounts. The coin market has gone into orbit the last 20 years with some rare currencies commanding million-dollar price tags. Numismatists have a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill, and coin dealers have been fighting hard to repeal a 1981 law barring rare coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet into...
...Peruvian air force had been carrying 250 kilograms of cocaine - a relatively small load - rather than a family of missionaries. Assume, further, that the pilot had demanded $500,000 to fly the risky mission, and that the plane itself had cost the narco-traffickers another half million. That million-dollar loss in the failed mission still amounted to less than 10 percent of the street value of the shipment. And that's plenty of incentive for the traffickers to keep finding more and more ingenious ways of getting their wares to market. With rewards that high, there'll never...