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Whatever the case, after sufficiently confusing the audience, Stone abruptly redirected the talk to the safer, more boring waters of his film school days at NYU. Twenty minutes of material straight out of The Pocket Guide to Film School Anecdotes ("Martin Scorsese told me, 'Make a film from inside yourself, about yourself."') left those in attendance pining for more of Stone's wacky self-analysis...
...million units were used in the U.S. last year alone), an increasing number of physicians are taking a harder look at bloodless medicine. According to the Jehovah's Witnesses, more than 75,000 doctors already practice bloodless surgery in the U.S. Also, more and more patients are clamoring for safer and more effective options than transfusions, either because of religious conviction or fear of contracting disease...
Their concern is not always misplaced. Blood transfusions, while safer today than in the past, are not risk free. The chance of contracting AIDS from a unit of blood, for instance, is 1 in 500,000, and 1 in 103,000 for hepatitis C, according to the National Institutes of Health. The risk becomes greater as more units are transfused. "If you get 10 units of blood, the risk of HIV infection becomes 1 in 50,000," says George Nemo, leader of a group investigating transfusion medicine at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute...
...fortunate for Schuler that the tumor was discovered in 1997 rather than in 1987. In the intervening decade, brain surgery advanced dramatically, enabling doctors to refine their operating techniques enormously with the aid of more sophisticated medical technology. Today they can chart a far safer passage to tumors hidden deep in the brain. But, more to the point for Schuler, Dr. Keith Black, the man who stands over her exposed brain with scalpel in hand, is one of the world's most talented brain surgeons, known for working with the most difficult of brain tumors...
...danger is so great, say the critics, that Cassini must be stopped. Last week the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ran newspaper ads calling Cassini a "nuclear experiment in space" and claiming that NASA has failed to consider safer power sources like solar cells. The group is planning rallies at the U.N., at the White House and, on Oct. 4, at Cape Canaveral in an effort to get Cassini canceled...