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...city has received some good news on air quality. The International Olympic Committee said in March that a study last summer showed pollution levels in Beijing that were better than expected. IOC president Jacques Rogge said last week that air quality should not be a problem for shorter events, though long-distance competitions such as mountain biking, cycling road races, the marathon and triathlon may need to be postponed based on pollution levels on the days of the events. Beijing is hoping the latest measures will make postponing events unnecessary...
...certain ways it was our best effort of the year, we just couldn’t pull it out down the stretch,” Tillman said. “I think we probably played too much defense. We failed to clear a couple of times, and had shorter possessions, which put a lot of pressure on them...we probably got fatigued, made a couple of mistakes in terms of the game plan,” he added...
...expectation is that patients will cope better after the operation with the less-invasive new techniques - no external scarring, less pain (most of Horgan's patients take nothing stronger than Tylenol after surgery), shorter recoveries and no risk of hernia. Surgeons have created a national organization called the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, or NOSCAR, to track the procedure's success and safety, and to collect data on patients' progress. NOSCAR also monitors the risk of infection with natural-orifice surgery, which doctors anticipate will be significantly lower than with traditional laparoscopic procedures - since the longer it takes...
...recent survey of UCSD undergraduates, conducted by Horgan and Talamini, the majority of female respondents said they would choose transvaginal surgery over the traditional alternative, given the benefits of less pain, shorter recovery and no scarring. Talamini plans to present the results of the survey this week in Philadelphia at the annual conference for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, of which he is the newly appointed president...
...trim the name to the more manageable “Department of English” at its next meeting on April 8. The proposal for the name change was passed yesterday by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name “Professor of English” and the department Web site using the title “Department of English.” English professor Helen Vendler was less than enthused about the revision, calling...