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...have found that teenagers handle bariatric surgery even better than adults. The study of 309 adolescents and 55,192 adults found that only 5.5% of teenagers had complications after surgery compared with 9.8% in adults. "There has always been a lot of concern that doing surgery in a young person, however extreme the case is, will carry a lot of complications," says Dr. Esteban Varela, lead author of the study and director of Minimally Invasive Surgery at VA North Texas Health Care System. "But it is even safer." Between 2000 and 2003, the number of teenagers who had bariatric surgery...
...RECYCLING 745 Kilograms of trash generated per person in the U.S. in 2005, the latest data available. Some 32% of this waste was recycled, double the rate from 15 years ago $236 billion Estimated annual revenue of the U.S. recycling industry...
...that he has been unable to confront those like Aziz, and has had to form alliances with conservative groups, costing him the support of moderates. "The rate of evaporation of support for Musharraf over the past few months is unprecedented," says Iqbal. "I don't come across a single person who is defending Musharraf today." Even support from the U.S. seems to be wavering. Representatives Tom Lantos and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen along with Senator Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently, saying that, "It is our impression that many Pakistani citizens view the President's campaign against...
...like those shot by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair five months before she died. Every year around this time, he says, Testino is inundated with requests for his photos of a smiling, serene Diana. "The pictures were important to me from the very beginning because she was a magical person," he says. "But I don't feel comfortable releasing them everywhere. I prefer they remain something special and precious...
...with strangers isn't always a success; getting stuck with someone boring is never a joy, and a bad date can infect the entire table. But unlike a dinner party, a shared table allows you to order what you want, and there's no obligation to talk to the person next to you. Getting to know your neighbors, however, is often part of the fun. Those at such tables tend to be more sociable, like DiGangi and Natt-Irom. At Buddakan that night, the interaction between groups started with food ("Oh, what's that?" as a plate of shaken chili...