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...people a year for DVT, and says 25 patients died from pulmonary embolism between 1992 and 2000. Of the 13 deaths on arrival in 2000, he put eight down to DVT. Other doctors say Makino did not prove DVT as the cause of death. But his figures reflect a worldwide pattern: based on the numbers of passengers treated on arrival in the U.K., British doctors estimate 2,000 people contract the condition each year, 15 of them fatally. "It's the sitting still that does the damage," says Patrick Kesteven, a consultant hematologist at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, northern...
...abnormal breathing, gratefully for her living presence. I say my prayers over and over. Long ago I promised not to pray any more for insubstantial things-a Red Sox win, for instance, even a crucial Red Sox win-but to reserve any entreaties for the truly important stuff. I reflect now, as I gaze at Caroline with a love deeper than that I experienced when she was born, that I've been doing a lot of asking in the last year, what with all these hospital visits. A lot of thanking, too-and never more fervently than...
...Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is, preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
...times. The five-year mission of the survey, to make a 3-D map of the cosmos, is far from complete, but scientists reported at the American Astronomical Society's spring meeting in Pasadena, Calif., that it is clearer than ever that galaxies cluster together into huge clumps that reflect conditions that existed soon after the Big Bang...
...when it opens at your local theater. Not because it's a great film, which (though I'm no movie critic) it isn't, but because after spending more than two hours watching a sappy love story bracket a burst of high-tech pyrotechnics, you can reflect on the deep grip that World War II continues to have on our imagination...