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...looking for a quick and lasting remedy often choose surgery. Approximately 135,000 SUI surgeries are performed a year in the U.S., with a success rate of 75% to 95%. The two most common are the Burch procedure, which uses permanent stitches to support the bladder neck, and the sling procedure, which tightens the sphincter knot. Bartosh and Lynch say they are happy with their sling surgeries and report no leakage, though each had some initial complications afterward. "I feel so much better about myself," says Bartosh, gripping her coffee cup in the parking lot. "I've taken ownership...
...telling you right now, that if John Kerry gets to be president of these United States, it?ll be a sorry day in this world for us. We can?t stand another Democrat like that in there again. We?ll get our asses in such a sling this time; we won?t be able to get out of it. And the bottom line to it is, I don?t care how much John Kerry?s changed after he moved off my boat, his initial patterns of behavior when I met him and served under him was somebody who ran from...
...thanks to the convergence of a prolonged war in Iraq, a presumptive Democratic nominee with a chestful of Vietnam combat medals and the eagerness of anti-Bush critics to sling accusations at the President, Bush's National Guard record is under scrutiny. It began with Michael Moore, the flamethrowing documentary filmmaker, labeling Bush a "deserter." Then Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic Party chairman, leveled the less serious AWOL charge...
...from the popular Republican William Weld, who had been elected Governor with 71% of the vote in a historically Democratic state. Weld's attacks on Kerry provide the playbook for the G.O.P. opposition-research elves, who even now are busy rummaging through every speech for arrows to sling...
...keen fashion observations tell me that brightly-colored messenger bags have replaced the classic L.L. Bean-initialed backpacks we all toted in sixth grade. And to the dismay of our scoliosis-wary vertebrae, girls today sling two-tone Harvé Chapelier bags stuffed with books and papers over one shoulder, instead of evenly distributing the load with two straps...