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...solution. The one he finally adopted appears to be a relatively simple procedure, but it has shaken the world of cardiac surgery and offered new hope to people suffering from congestive heart failure. Batista's radical concept: Since the diseased heart is too big, why not cut off a slice or two and make it smaller...
Almost every golfer thinks each time he goes out that this is going to be the day when he fixes that wicked slice on his drive or stops three-putting every hole and will shoot the round of his life. It usually doesn't happen, but it's part of the fun of the sport...
Another tour-de-force in the big-laughs arena is "L.S.A.T.T. (Lazy Sunday afternoon table-tennis," which, too, uses a restrained combination of auto-play and slice-of-life sampling. Here, the leisurely beat serves to pace the recording of an entire table tennis match that plays in the background. "Noone home" opens with all the signs of people being in the house, and then overlays the beat with all manner of attempted communication (buzzers of every timbre, phones ringing...
...when you look a little closer at these findings, they start to seem a bit murky. To begin with, observes Dr. Den Trumbull, a Montgomery, Ala., pediatrician who is vocal in the spanking debate, the mothers ranged in age from 14 to 21. That is hardly a representative slice of American motherhood. Moreover, those who spanked did so on average twice a week. These factors, says Trumbull, plus the fact that some of the kids were as old as nine, "are markers of a dysfunctional family in my mind, and in the minds of most psychologists and pediatricians...
...stressed-out journalist, I'm grateful to be done with this week's writing, and I'm going to celebrate with water and a slice of lemon. Maybe it will do. Simple abundance, one day at a time...