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Fortunately, there proved to be no need for more sweeping measures. The operation, which took 2 hr. 53 min., went smoothly. A team of six doctors headed by Navy Captain Dale Oller, chief of general surgery at Bethesda, snipped out a 2-ft.-long portion of Reagan's colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during...
...President slept on a standard metal hospital bed. Before dropping off, he was put through the battery of tests drearily familiar to anyone who has been prepared for major surgery: chest X ray, electrocardiogram and CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan, a kind of super X ray of a large portion of the body. The scan showed no sign of cancer outside the colon. The tests ended about 11 p.m.; Reagan then read for a while (what, no one would say) and fell asleep a bit after midnight. He was awakened at 5 a.m. Saturday for an antibiotic, and went back...
...what we do not. What happens when a generation of children is more familiar with video games than any other form of art, including the art of conversation? What happens when children are vastly more comfortable with simulations than with narratives? What happens when a significant portion of a generation’s experiences of pleasure derive from what is essentially the subconscious insinuation of algorithms? What happens when an entire generation becomes used to second-by-second gratification, the rapid thrills of an unfolding simulation that cannot be rivaled by, for instance, reading...
Elkayali started off his portion by rapping the lyrics, “You better listen well before you judge,” and describing the way in which the prejudices against Palestinian refugees had affected...
...alone," she said. Niezabitowska's file confirms most of this account - but it doesn't stop there. Grzelak wrote that Niezabitowska did come back the next day and agreed to collaborate under the code name Nowak. The controller filed 10 additional reports on meetings with Nowak. Niezabitowska says this portion of her file was fabricated by her controller, perhaps to advance his career or discredit her and other activists. "They wanted to neutralize people, not kill them," she says of the communist regime, "discredit them and force them out of the opposition." All the information attributed to Nowak is accurate...