Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these was Paul Sweeney, born in 1965 with twisted intestines, facial deformities and a cleft palate. Koop operated on him 37 times. For the final operation by another surgeon in 1983, Koop returned to Philadelphia in full dress uniform to wheel his former patient into the operating room. Sweeney recently graduated from West Chester University in Pennsylvania...
...time he was five, he knew he wanted to be a doctor like his uncle. At 15, he ! would take the subway on weekends from Brooklyn to Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, pinch a white lab coat, and take a seat in the balcony of the operating room, transfixed for hours by amputations and appendectomies. Back home, while his father was at the office, he would persuade his mother to help her precocious only child round up stray cats and dump them into a sterile trash can with an ether-soaked sponge so that he could perform exploratory surgery...
...protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo it. His proposal, he says, is to provide Eastern Europe with the political breathing room to reintegrate with the West while depriving the Kremlin of a military pretext to interfere...
...every day," says Ron, "when we don't discuss having another child. But where would the extra minutes come from?" Lynne runs the red-hot Manhattan Theater Club; Ron is a partner in a midsize law firm. They live in a home where the telephone cords stretch into every room, and the nanny starts work at 7:30 a.m. "You can imagine what getting out the door in the morning is like," says Ron. Are there regrets? He ponders, "Can we take the added pressure that a second child would bring?" For the moment, the answer...
...with the character of the individual," says Kate Smith, who has worked with athletes in the Harvard training room for two years. "Obviously, if the athlete is not committed to the sport, then an injury provides an excellent excuse to quit. But almost everyone that comes in here with a serious injury returns to the playing field...