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Batista's income is as modest as his clinic. He receives about $80 for performing each heart procedure; a doctor in a U.S. hospital would charge about $50,000 to perform the same operation. When he gets paid to talk at a conference, he donates the fee to charity. Foreign surgeons frequently try to wine and dine him at the finest restaurants, but he is happiest chewing corn on the cob at his favorite restaurant, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Batista's chief wish is to set cardiac surgery in a direction that will benefit both the developed and the developing world...
When it comes to teaching medical techniques, of course, some of the instruction has to be hands-on, and that is where people like Doll come in. A longtime nurse practitioner from Garden City, Doll also happens to be a Dominican sister who lives in a modest home with two other members of her order. By day, Doll works for two community-health clinics that care for about 1,300 children, most of them Mexican American, whose parents may work but may not necessarily have insurance. In the evening she teaches local nurse-practitioner students how to suture wounds, treat...
Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The new unit, known as the euro, will proceed on schedule, predicts John Hsu, CEO of John Hsu Capital Group, a New York City-based money-management firm. "But there will be all kinds of compromises. That implicitly means the euro is going to be a weak currency." Britain is expected...
...Bear, deserves a Best Supporting Animal award for his ferocious work. Baldwin is persuasive in his familiar persona, the cagey sleazebag. And as the polymath plutocrat, Hopkins manages to make erudition sexy; a library intelligence and a steely intellect make him Baldwin's ideal adversary. The Edge merits a modest cheer as an action film that celebrates not brute force but survival of the smartest...
...MODEST PROPOSAL FOR SENATORS...