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...Carmelite convent near Baltimore, an interdenominational Christian prayer center in Missouri and several other congregations--all of which will entrust it further to some Higher Force. Only when the requests have gone out will Dr. Mitchell Krucoff insert a catheter, and eventually several buttressing stents (small mesh devices to prop open the vessel), into Stephens' coronary artery...
DIED. MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, 86, consummate political wife and, briefly, a U.S. Senator; in Minneapolis, Minn. When Hubert H. Humphrey launched his political career in 1945, Brown campaigned next to him. She broke the spouse-as-campaign-prop mold during Humphrey's three bids for President and his term as Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking out on such issues as the rights of the mentally disabled...
WASHINGTON: That cash-hungry monster known as the International Space Station just keeps on growing. Now NASA wants an extra $660 million from Congress to help prop up the Russian end of the operation, and space agency officials admit the bail-out cost could spiral up to $1.3 billion. The ISS project is starting to look like a farcical inversion of the 60's space race -- by working together over the past four years, the two Cold War rivals have not managed to put a single component in Earth orbit. And then there's the bill, which keeps increasing exponentially...
Senior citizens looking to prop up their pension a bit should keep a close eye on their medical bills. That's because, starting Jan. 1, Medicare beneficiaries can collect up to $1,000 for helping root out instances of the fraud and overbilling that cost the government billions of dollars each year. To blow the whistle on crooked oxygen suppliers or home-health-care providers, just call...
...with sufficient imagination, envisioning only one way for Clinton to confess--staring at a camera in the Oval Office, reading a TelePrompTer. The dramaturgy is flat. Even Richard Nixon in his 1952 Checkers speech--the prototype of aggressive self-defense through televised "confession"--used poor Pat as a studio prop and, of course, conjured up the adorable, absent...