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...quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they were, not more deranged; and intelligence was an attribute to flaunt, not hide like an appendix scar. Today's game shows might take their cue from another '40s radio favorite, It Pays to Be Ignorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parties for Smarties | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Broken Heart | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Broken Heart | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...sports a battle scar in the shape of abulky cast on her left foot, which she says camefrom hitting the streets for Capuano...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bay State Readies Ballot Boxes | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anatomy of a Drag Queen | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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