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RECOVERING. BILL CLINTON, 58, from a four-hour operation to remove fluid and scar tissue from his left chest cavity, a rare complication from his quadruple bypass last fall; at a hospital in New York City, where he will remain for up to 10 days...
...enjoys the increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says, in the gently lyrical interior monologue that makes up Dave King...
Howie doesn't so much frighten people--the scar's not that bad--as weary them. It's so difficult for him to communicate that everyone else just finds it easier to leave him mired in his isolation. So does he. Because he's the book's narrator, we know all about his low-key wit and the sharp, sure turnings of his mind. Bystanders have to make do with the reassurance printed on the business cards he brings out to explain his muteness: PLEASE REMEMBER: I AM OF NORMAL INTELLIGENCE...
...Ekkelkamp, a middle-A MIDDLE-aged Dutch woman, has a gap between her two front teeth. Norwegian toddler Ragnar Bang Ericsson has a small triangular birthmark on his lower back. Jacobo Hassan, a Mexican man, has an Ishaped scar below his right knee. Chie Machida, a Japanese woman, wears a pink-jeweled navel ring...
...When I was a boy in Wales, my great-uncle Dai used to get drunk at Christmas and drop his trousers to show my scandalized aunts the scar on his buttock. A Turkish bullet struck him as he and his brother secured the road north of Jerusalem in 1917 with the Imperial Camel Corps...