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...have a perfect storm of an aging population, increased demands by younger patients, a better ability to do the procedure, and increased arthritis in the general population," says Dr. Richard Iorio, a senior orthopedic surgeon at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and lead author of the paper. Painful osteoarthritis, he explains, is responsible for the vast majority of joint replacement surgery...
...really be in trouble, according to an analysis by Iorio and his co-authors. They found that only 6% to 7% of orthopedic surgeons are specializing in joint replacement. A plummeting reimbursement rate for this kind of surgery - it's dropped about 39% in recent years, according to the paper - makes this kind of work "pretty unappealing to younger surgeons," says Dr. Iorio...
...forthcoming paper in the China Quarterly, Professor Kevin O'Brien of the University of California, Berkeley, describes how repression can often backfire and actually make activists more respected by their communities. If that happened in China, its rural population could be further radicalized. It was Mao Zedong who famously said a "single spark can light a prairie fire." Men like He may not know it, but they are holding burning brands in their hands...
...newspaper reader under 30 who gets why newspapers endorse presidential candidates. First, what makes endorsements different from editorials? Second, I'm interested in whom my local paper endorses because I feel its staffers have been around the candidates, digging into the facts. Stengel's question speaks volumes about how far our expectations have fallen when it comes to newspapers. Ryan Hagen, NEW YORK CITY...
...when he was still living in China, the artist Cai Guo-Qiang began experimenting with a very Chinese medium. And a very tricky one: gunpowder. He would sprinkle it on fibrous paper, then light it to create a "drawing" of burned residues. He moved on to produce outdoor "explosion events," using fireworks to create spectacles on the ground and in the sky that he related to Taoist ideas about destruction and transformation. By now, Cai (pronounced Sigh) is an old master of blast art. Which is funny, because at 50, he's a soft-spoken man with a modest manner...