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...onus solely on Israel's "suffocating blockade on Gaza's land and sea borders" - completely ignoring Egypt's blockade on its Gaza border, probably instated because of the same realistic security concerns Israel has. Without Egypt's blockade, there would be no need for the tunnels. Harry Gartzman, Philadelphia...
...those hulking motor coaches--from sullen rides to sleepaway camp to a terrifyingly fast tour abroad with an unpleasant-smelling driver--none of the memories are very nice. So when my ultra-cool 29-year-old cousin started raving about her regular bus trips from New York City to Philadelphia, where her fiancé is in grad school, I figured maybe it was time to review my old bias...
...Brennan, an office-furniture store owner in the Philadelphia area, couldn't believe how quickly and ferociously the recession hit his business. Demand for office furniture had surged to new highs in 2008, causing him to frantically add staff to meet furniture orders and allowing him to wrap up the year with revenue surpassing the $24 million mark - the highest level since his company's launch in 1989. But all of that came to an abrupt halt in January 2009 when the recession forced companies to postpone or cancel office expansions and renovations, causing demand for Brennan's office furniture...
...advise annual screenings even if patients have to pay for them out of pocket. "That would be a step backward, taking away an option from women and denying them the choice," says Dr. Mary Daly, chairperson of the department of clinical genetics at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia...
...chests without killing one. Buoyed by such successes, in the postwar years surgeons made rapid advances in heart treatments. But they struggled to perform operations that lasted longer than four minutes, because the interruption in circulation caused brain damage. That changed in 1953, when Dr. John Gibbon Jr. of Philadelphia used a heart-lung respirator to keep an 18-year-old patient alive for 27 minutes while he repaired a hole in her heart, paving the way for open-heart surgeries to enter widespread use. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's smarter approach to health care...