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There was an error in TIME's 10 Questions interview with Al Roker [Dec. 7]. Roker incorrectly reports that "1 in 200" dies of complications from laparoscopic gastric bypass, the procedure he had in 2002. According to a July 2009 study by the National Institutes of Health, the mortality rate associated with this gastric bypass is about 1 in 500, or 0.2%. We agree with Roker that the decision to have surgery is an important one and should not be made "because someone on TV made that decision." It should be made because morbid obesity is a serious, life-threatening...
...actually wear pants while doing the news? - Curtis Ohl, Escondido, Calif. I choose to. I know colleagues - and I'm not going to use any coy initials here, Al Roker - I know people in the industry who don't: Garrison Keillor. I don't celebrate that. I think it's a tawdry trick, Matt Lauer...
...watch a video interview with Al Roker and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions
...Roker your questions for an upcoming interview, at time.com/10questions
...example, the show’s opening scene features just such a positive, practical idea: a community market. As Elmo shops around for odds and ends on the street, Al Roker explains to Elmo that a community market is just “neighbors coming together to buy and sell things” and “make some extra money.” In a later scene—and a symbolic slice of the show’s spirit—one of the neighborhood youths explains to Grover that despite the ambiguity of the phrase, one can?...