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...severe seizure last November confronted the Goes with an agonizing decision: Should Coe have a hemispherectomy? "I never recommend this operation," says Neurosurgeon Charles W. Burklund. "It can only be done on a select few patients. Then, because of the risk, the final decision must be theirs." Says Mrs. Coe: "He didn't want to be a burden and lie in a coma for months." So they agreed that he should have the operation...
...Some form of collective action will a necessary if the pupils are to know what it is that they are to participate in from day to day. It is unrealistic to expect young children to organize this exercise [of prayer] and select or compose prayers without some guidance," he said. "With forced abstention, of the teacher, there is an open invitation for church groups to assume this function...
...Indonesia's first and only President think of it all? "I have no desire to be a king, a king of kings, a shah-in-shah," he told the Congress. "I want to participate in the leadership." Fortunately, the Congress had agreed to let him help Suharto select a new Cabinet. It was "help" that Suharto was not likely to make much use of, but still it gave the participation the Bung needed to save face. "When I heard this, my heart felt like going 'plong-plong,' " he said...
...help executors appraise estates for taxes. Appraisers' fees come out of the estate, and are often based on the size of the estate as the appraisers calculate it. As to how appraisers get their jobs, Detroit Probate Judge Ernest C. Boehm could hardly be franker: "Naturally I select men who have helped me in my campaign...
...fontaines to a sommelier will make his eyeballs roll. Préfontaines is very much a vin ordinaire, the sturdy stuff that washes down the bread and cheese and accounts for 90% of the 1.5 billion gal. of wine drunk by Frenchmen every year. It will never make a select wine list, but it has made another important listing: the shares of the Préfontaines company, D.M.S., have gone on the Paris Bourse for the first time. This is an indication of the success of Préfontaines in France's $1.26 billion-a-year wine market, which...