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...drama on religion without being snarky or saccharine). Because it has ambitions that broadcasters have all but ceded to cable, and sometimes it even meets them. Because it creates a world rather than borrowing one. And because I'm willing to be patient with a show that has learned sling-wielding David's timeless lesson: Sometimes it pays...
...America's health-care dollars are being spent. Next, a $1.1 billion government study, funded as part of the stimulus package, will take that information and figure out which treatments get the best outcomes for the least money. Which makes more sense for a clavicle fracture: a simple sling and waiting six weeks or surgical repair with a stainless-steel plate? The final step could be to create a federal health-care board that would shape Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursement plans based on those studies...
Throughout the hotel, the furnishing details ooze luxury - even the elevators, which are lined with black American walnut and leather. The purple-themed Skybar has a slinky after-dark appeal (try the Aviator Sling: gin, parfait amour, cranberry and lime juice), while the Brasserie is all cream-leather seating and walnut finishes. It's here that chef Allan Pickett (formerly at Galvin Bistrot de Luxe in London) makes use of local produce to create a tempting take-off menu: the piquant steak tartare is already proving a runaway success. And on the walls, black-and-white photos of Hollywood stars...
...lung. They were removed in an operation so drastic that his chest had to be opened from top to bottom, slashing his shoulder muscles so that he thought he might never be able to paint again. While convalescing, he painted The Trodden Weed, with his arm suspended in a sling from the ceiling. The boots that flatten the weed once belonged to Howard Pyle and were Betsy's Christmas gift to him in 1950. Wyeth wore them while taking long walks to regain his strength. He explained: "The painting came to signify to me a close relationship between critical...
...Tuesday, the Dow had dropped 1,400 points in five days, the biggest point loss ever. As increasingly gloomy job numbers pile on top of the continuing problems in the credit market, it seems the U.S. government may be running out of economic hash to sling...