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...medical journals, Patel's procedures have improved the heart's pumping ability by 20-70%. But that doesn't mean you should book a ticket to Bangkok the minute you start feeling chest pains. As the therapy is still experimental, only those classified by doctors as "no option"?meaning that conventional solutions such as angioplasty and bypass surgery have been exhausted?are eligible. "These patients are really sick," says TheraVitae spokesman Jay Lenner Jr. "We can give people a second chance." Those interested in the treatment, which costs about $30,000 (including most expenses in Bangkok) and requires...
...dedicated to student social space. The new library administration building across from Felipe’s should serve as a glaring reminder of that, as should the current “renovation” of the old Pudding building on 12 Holyoke St. Going co-ed is another option frequently touted, but this suggestion doesn’t recognize that final clubs are ultimately controlled by old-school graduate trustees, nor does it address questions of social elitism. Second of all, and more importantly, none of these objections is persuasive enough to convince me that I should leave an organization...
...disappointed,” he said. “I made it clear that [the violations] are not a persistent thing.” Some students, however, said that they would not take advantage of increased Felipe’s hours. “It would be a nice option,” said Sameer Lakha ’09, “one that I would hopefully not need to use.” Nonetheless, Brush believes that there is enough consumer demand to warrant the changes. “We do feel there is very broad support...
...sounding “estate tax” is now better known by the nefarious moniker “the death tax.” The Democrats, of course, play the same game, though perhaps less successfully; the Republican strategy for eliminating judicial filibusters, “the constitutional option,” is now universally referred to as “the nuclear option” by Democrats...
While specific legislation has not yet been drafted for the proposed social programming board, Capp said at last night’s meeting that one possible option would be to dissolve CLC and the First-Year Social Committee in favor of the new board “that would be able to function more or less independently from the UC...on a day-to-day basis...