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...between Wal-Mart and its antagonists has a new front: Washington. After years of Wal-Mart's getting bashed by labor and other corporate critics, CEO Lee Scott decided in January to launch an aggressive campaign to defend his empire. "We have let other people shape our reputation," says Ray Bracy, a Wal-Mart vice president in charge of government relations, who has led its expanded Washington footprint. Scott has met face to face with Senate Republican leader Bill Frist, Democratic leader Harry Reid and many other lawmakers. Wal-Mart, which gave 78% of its $1.7 million in campaign contributions...
...table slides the patient into the scanner as the X-ray tube circles the body...
...lesions or plaques that block the arteries then show up on an X-ray picture called an angiogram. And if you don't consider catheterization real surgery, you don't understand how invasive and delicate an operation it actually is. The process can take anywhere from four to six hours and carries a 1% risk of serious complications, including death, from wayward catheters that can tear the delicate artery walls--which is why doctors don't order it lightly. Yet 20% to 40% of patients who take the risk turn out not to have needed it: they show no significant...
...wants to return to a quieter time. McLennan County Commissioner Ray Meadows, who told TIME he was "mad as a hornet" when he first saw cars and tents spilling over the ditches on Prairie Chapel Road in what was to become Camp Casey, has called on his fellow commissioners to limit traffic and activity on seven miles of road around the Western White House...
Raised in the Chicago neighborhood of South Shore by his mother (his parents divorced when he was 3, and he spent summers with his father Ray, a former Black Panther who is now a Christian marriage counselor), West went to good schools, received art and music lessons and, when he was 10, spent a year in Nanjing, China, where his mother was a visiting professor. Like many suburban kids, he developed a passion for hip-hop that was only enhanced by his awareness that the genre often romanticized bad behavior. His mother did not exactly approve; when West went...