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MASTECTOMIES To judge from the rush to outlaw "drive-by" mastectomies, you'd think we faced a crisis. But outpatient mastectomies (as they're known off the Senate floor) aren't really a serious national problem. Roughly 15% of mastectomies are done on an outpatient basis today, up from 2% in 1991. Naturally there are some abuses. But as with everything from cataracts to cartilage, technical leaps often make outpatient surgery the safer, cheaper option. Johns Hopkins University, for example, one of the nation's top breast-surgery centers, does mostly outpatient work and reports fewer infections and happier patients...
...Americans bask by the ocean this summer, they might consider the latest candidate for extinction: the beach beneath them. Dean exhaustively documents the ways in which coastal development threatens the very amenity that has caused a trillion-dollar land rush to the shores since World War II. Seawalls, jetties and other technologies aimed at protecting waterfront property only accelerate the loss of sand or starve nearby beaches. Unless politicians end the absurd subsidies that encourage development on shifting sands, Dean powerfully argues, America may face a future of beachless beach towns...
Some of the projects (The House on Haunted Hill, with Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, and Jan de Bont's The Haunting) are remakes. Others recall The Exorcist, Jaws, Rosemary's Baby. But that conservatism simply underlines the urge of top filmmakers to rediscover an honorable American tradition: the tale of psychological terror. Invented by Poe, mastered by Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft--and branded forever on film by Hitchcock--the horror genre is too important to be left to the kids. It speaks to every doubt and guilt we silently carry; it lends a seductive form to fear...
...hurly-burly of the Biennale, Hamilton's meditative rooms are like church pews amid the roar of Grand Central Terminal. The opening crowds jostled inside the pavilion, drowning the whispering voice, wrecking the peaceful atmosphere. How could divinity alight at rush hour...
Next they'll be having an "everything must go" sale at Fort Knox. The latest gold rush has tens of thousands of miners in South Africa, Russia and other gold-producing countries facing unemployment ?- because there's a rush to sell. The Bank of England offloaded 25 tons on Tuesday, dragging the price of gold down to a 20-year low. And there's worse to come, as the International Monetary Fund proceeds with plans to sell $2.6 billion of its own gold reserves to raise money for debt relief to poor countries...