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...time for surgery, the child dons the headset (instead of a scary face mask), and, while happily preoccupied, is slipped a dose of nitrous oxide through the snorkel. Within minutes, the young patient is comfortably sedated and ready for stronger drugs, if needed. PediSedate is intended only for minor surgery, such as stitching deep wounds or inserting ear stents. For major operations like an appendectomy, anesthesia must still be delivered the old-fashioned way: through a tube placed directly into the airway. And sorry, grownups, no adult version is available. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...viewers 19 years and under has plummeted more than 66%. You can walk the streets of Tokyo for weeks without seeing a Giants hat; you'll see a Mariners logo within an hour. The recession has reduced the number of teams in Japan's Industrial League, its de facto minor league system, from 300 in the late 1980s to 90 today. There has been talk about creating an Asian league with South Korea and China to spark interest, even whispers about contraction...
...common in rural Pakistan for local councils, called panchayats, to adjudicate minor disputes over land, water or honor; the system is supposed to work in tandem with local police. But these days the councils are veering out of control. Last week, a man acquitted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court was retried by a village committee in Punjab. A day later he was stoned to death by a crowd...
...what you will about Galella's line of work, any one who can take a picture of Elizabeth Taylor with her guard down is performing at least a minor service to posterity. Otherwise we would imagine that her starlight is on all the time. Galella has been to celebrities what Ansel Adams was to mountains, with the important difference that Adams always made the mountains look good. Galella took his famous faces as he found them. From him we learn that Sophia Loren manages to remain majestic even when she's just sitting around an airport, but that Richard Burton...
...BEST REF Amid the controversies of disallowed goals and phantom fouls, fans have overlooked some fine officiating. Despite being defamed by losing coaches, the World Cup referees did manage to crack down on shameless diving, giving defenders the benefit of the doubt in 50-50 situations and ignoring minor infringements to keep the games flowing. Pierluigi Collina, in particular, won praise and a place in the final for controlling games that could have become ugly grudge-fests (i.e. Argentina vs. England...