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...Horgan's patients take nothing stronger than Tylenol after surgery), shorter recoveries and no risk of hernia. Surgeons have created a national organization called the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, or NOSCAR, to track the procedure's success and safety, and to collect data on patients' progress. NOSCAR also monitors the risk of infection with natural-orifice surgery, which doctors anticipate will be significantly lower than with traditional laparoscopic procedures - since the longer it takes an incision to heal, the greater the risk of infection...
Condoleezza Rice's return to the Middle East highlighted the lack of progress since last year's peace summit...
...almost tactile drama of the new music movies is a product of digital progress--advances in 3-D, smaller HD cameras and bolder audio. "You get all that intimacy, but you get a big sound to it, and suddenly you have something completely immersive," says Stephen Walker, the director of Young @ Heart, a quirky (2-D) documentary about a New England senior citizens' chorus that covers songs by the Clash and James Brown. Walker shot 81-year-old Fred Knittle singing Coldplay's Fix You with five small cameras at a Massachusetts theater. Because it was both unobtrusive and ubiquitous...
...restructuring. “Even though we are cutting substantially over three million dollars in our budget, we are managing to do things other schools aren’t within our budget,” Fowler-Finn said. Cambridge resident Peter Schweich criticized the superintendent for incorrectly representing the progress of Cambridge schools. He said that the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) graduation rates, proclaimed as “among the highest in the state” on the district’s Web site, mask the fact that Cambridge is in the “42nd percentile...
...attempt from other countries to establish political stability in Chad. The European Union approved a peacekeeping force in January to try to quell the fighting. But, according to de Waal, “I think it’s impossible for that kind of force to make any progress without there being a political process.” The conflict and refugees both in Darfur and in Chad have spilled over their respective borders, exacerbating the turmoil. “The crises are now so entangled that, if you want a solution in one, you have to have a solution...