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...director of Women's Wear Daily, cooks for friends three times a week. "In my work," he says, "I assemble a lot of things and have control over their timing. To be a cook, you bring these experiences into play." For surgeons and soldiers, executives, editors, artists and salesmen, there is this same symbiotic relationship between shop and stove. Says Howard Abrahams, 32, a Manhattan attorney who graduated cum culinary laude from two cooking schools: "Cooking and law are quite similar. With both, there's the challenge of problem solving, logic and reasoning...
Doctors at other hospitals vigorously deny that such an event could happen in their operating rooms. But they concede that medical-supplies salesmen do occasionally act as technical advisers and sometimes even help set up the complicated instruments and equipment that have become essential in today's intricate surgical procedures. Attorney Matthew Lifflander, chief of the New York State Assembly task force that uncovered the Mirando case on a Newsday tip, disagrees...
...insists that salesmen all too often participate in the actual operations because some surgeons refuse to take the trouble to become familiar with new equipment or techniques. He says that his investigators have information implicating a dozen other salesmen in illegal surgery, including one case in which the factory representative had to remove a drill that became stuck in a patient's skull during brain surgery. Adds Lifflander: "What we found is that the level of incompetence among surgeons is a lot greater than anyone imagined...
...Africa is replaced by neocolonialization. Although the countries remained independent by name, the economies of all the countries is still controlled and regulated by the colonialist masters. Our political parties have no well-defined programs. Most of our leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army...
...Salesmen at the General Nutrition Center store on Holyoke St. said yesterday they sell about two quarts of liquid protein each day. Most customers learned about the diet through a paperback bestseller, "The Last Chance Diet," they said...