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Heart disease has a way of upping the ante: the future always needs tending. After two bypasses my heart will not take a third--too dangerous for a surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available...
...treatment in the mid-'80s, researchers believed the channels remained open. Apparently not. It is now thought that the drilling provokes new blood-vessel growth where the laser burns a hole. (Others suggest the angina may be eased simply because the laser numbs pain-sensing nerves of the heart.) Scar tissue from the laser holes seems minimal...
...sports a battle scar in the shape of abulky cast on her left foot, which she says camefrom hitting the streets for Capuano...
...growing up in communist East Berlin, he used to listen to American rock 'n' roll in the only place he could find privacy: sticking his head in the family oven. Later an American serviceman arranged for a sex-change operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that...
First, although there is much to celebrate in the decline of Jim Crow Racism, our institutions and culture still bear a deeply disfiguring scar best described as Laissez-Faire Racism. Prior to World War II most white Americans accepted Jim Crow Racism. They supported segregated schools and housing, endorsed clear preferences for whites over blacks in access to employment, and flatly rejected the idea of racially mixed marriages. All of this rested upon the belief that African-Americans were inherently inferior. Today these views stand in disrepute. Most white Americans now say that we should be an integrated...