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...regularly scheduled six-month follow-up to his surgery for colon cancer last July, President Reagan paid a return visit last week to an operating room in Bethesda Naval Hospital. What had been billed as a routine examination proved to be a complicated series of tests. Doctors clipped three tiny polyps from the wall of the President's colon and shipped them off for examination. A surgeon shaved off a tiny growth on the right side of Reagan's face and sent it, too, for a biopsy. The six-hour medical work-up also included X rays, blood tests...
...first hour, Once You're Born has echoes of another Italian fable, Pinocchio -the story of a sweet-souled, rather unformed lad who is misled by two villains, has a near-death water adventure and learns what it means to be human. Giordana, whose six-hour The Best of Youth is currently enchanting U.S. art-house audiences, here expertly creates an aura of family love that any child would be sick to be so suddenly and violently removed from. Then, instead of allowing the ecstatic exclamation point of a simple, hugging resolution to Sandro's maritime ordeal, he introduces question...
...local police. Meanwhile, bloody clashes, usually unreported in the media, occur daily in Chechnya. Last week, seven guerrillas were killed in a gunfight in Nalchik, capital of the once sleepy republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. A standoff in a city apartment block lasting almost two days concluded in a deadly six-hour firefight; two police were also reported injured. The rebels included four women and were part of the radical Islamist...
...Saturday, fresh off of that break, it achieved happy redemption—in the unlikely form of a six-hour jaunt to Easton, Penn...
...this frenetic construction just a gamble that a whale might make? Adelson doesn't think so. "Risks? I don't think there are any," he says. And he might be right. Half of the world's population lives less than a six-hour flight away from Macau. The city has always attracted gamblers from Hong Kong and a few high rollers from mainland China. Beijing is now allowing more Chinese to visit Macau independently instead of in tightly controlled tour groups. A surge is under way?the number of mainland tourists to the former colony nearly doubled between...