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...latest advances in scanning could backfire, moreover, if they lead to lots of unnecessary surgery. Not every blockage reduces blood flow. Sometimes the other blood vessels that nourish the heart can take up the slack--a situation that's more common than you might think. "We still don't know what to do with patients who have a number of moderate narrowings but no ischemia," says Dr. Roger Blumenthal of Johns Hopkins. "There are no data showing that taking them to the cath lab for stenting or angioplasty affects their outcome...
...year-old lay youth minister from Mary, Mother of Church in Burnsville, Minnesota said that "John Paul is a tough act to follow." Observing Benedict in Cologne, Mertes says, it is clear that he isn't "out there" like his predecessor. "We've got to cut him some slack, give him some time to grow into the persona. It's a question of comfort level. But we've been praying for him to be ok in this role." Mertes, who admitted that Pope Ratzinger's doctrinal approach is "too conservative" for his tastes, is encouraged that he may be softening...
...Alex Slack ‘06, an editorial executive, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He is jealous of his friends who are sure of what they want to do post-college, and he hopes no one noticed the weird mixed metaphor in his postcard’s last sentence. Expos taught him to try to connect his titles with his conclusions...
...Alex Slack ‘06, a Crimson editorial chair, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He doesn’t really hate collar poppers...
Hanging laundry is not a bad analogy for the way Breslin works. His book relies less on plot than on the cumulative effect of colorful anecdotes flapping on a slack story line. There are tales of the old sod, immigration and Boss Tweed's New York. The first male Morrison in the U.S. walks off the boat in 1870 and is put right to work sandhogging for 75¢ a day plus three hots and a cot. He soon discovers that he is restricted to the construction camp because the nearby Hudson River town of Beacon, N.Y., does not want muddy...