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...slice was for area of concentration so that one house wouldn't have all the humanists or all the scientists," Heimert says. "Another slice was according to probable rank so that one house wouldn't get all the dumb people and the other all the summas...
...larger-than-life section of the woman's right lung, a rosy mass marred by a couple of suspicious lumps. "Fire away," Sugarbaker directs the assisting surgeon. On the screen a tiny pincer appears. Grabbing hold of the lung just above the lesion, the pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size...
...joke made the cut. Many others fell short. (Leno: "The economy is so bad that Domino's is delivering pizzas one slice at a time." Brogan: "A little corny." Leno: "Corny? Gone.") By 3:30, they had whittled the selections to 21. Leno took out a microcassette recorder and read the jokes into the machine. The tape came in at five minutes 22 seconds. Bingo. Leno nodded: "Anything between four and six minutes is fine...
...envies the Big Green. Sure, sophomore Brendan Bowler will continue to slice through opposing defenses...
...especially in such states as Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, where Democrats are allowed to vote in G.O.P. primaries. Moreover, the President cannot afford to alienate conservatives whose support he will need in November, particularly in the South, where former Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke may be able to slice off several percentage points should he run in the general election...