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...Indiana University: "No careful study has ever shown any conclusive benefit." Of more concern, according to a survey conducted by Dyken and Statistician Robert Pokras, the operation carries a 2.8% risk of death and at least as great a risk of actually causing a stroke. "In the light of present knowledge," said Dyken, "there are too many procedures, performed by too many surgeons, in too many places, with too high stroke-and-death rate...
...childhood does not? Her adult life was not marred by more than the normal share of grief. Only the ordeal of Hammett's last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite the verbal savagery that she hurled at almost everyone she knew. The decision to present Hellman in a two-hour monologue provides a further emotional advantage: because her targets are not visible, spectators can savor the pith and vinegar of her language rather than cringe at its impact on the victims...
...more often it is punishing. Still the optimistic pursuit continues, the pursuer buoyed every morning by that barrage of knocking on the study door, the news that the news is still coming strong, and that the bonfires are still being lighted around the world, signaling that everyone is still present, still cocking their senses for the missing more...
...Washington last week to lobby for the Danforth bill, which besides setting national standards for product-liability suits would establish a new procedure for speedy out-of-court settlement of claims for economic damages. They first gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines, drew loud applause by declaring, "There are going...
...probability, that seriously overstates the case. Present and former trial lawyers populate state legislatures and Congress in numbers large enough to wield formidable blocking power. There is a question, too, of whether the courts would uphold any serious tort reforms that might be enacted. One omen: the Cook County, Ill., circuit court last year ruled that major parts of a newly enacted law stretching out damage awards in medical malpractice cases violated the Illinois constitution...