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After undergoing a battery of tests, Clinton received two stents in a coronary artery. The low-risk procedure involved inserting small metal mesh tubes into the artery to prop it open. The stents will remain within the artery permanently as scaffolding, allowing the vessel to stay open and accommodate blood flow. (See pictures of Clinton's North Korea rescue mission...
CRASH-Bs, which stands for Charles River All Star Has-Beens, started off as a way for Olympic and National team caliber rowers to keep winter training interesting, adding excitement to the erg by creating a local competition. But what started off as a small-scale indoor regatta in Newell Boathouse has grown to a large-scale international competition bringing the best rowers from across the world to Boston University’s Agassiz Arena. Once there, they spend six to eight minutes in a kind of pain that could have been easily obtained for much less money. (Of course...
...lead in the Rasmussen poll over Republican incumbent Governor Rick Perry. A year later, Rasmussen has Perry at 44%, Hutchison at 29% and Debra Medina, a little-known county party chairwoman and a member of the tea party movement, at 16%. Medina, a former nurse who runs a small medical-billing company near Houston, has seen her share in the Rasmussen poll of likely Republican primary voters rise dramatically from 4% in November, with a recent boost from two good performances in debates among the three candidates. This week, a poll of 423 probable Republican primary voters by Public Policy...
...truth is, for a small segment of the population, even exhaustive clinical and psychological tests will never guarantee a conclusive answer about their sex. According to Vilain, it's basically impossible to come up with a "universal cutoff" to determine females from males. "That's what we're struggling with," he says. "There is no one biological parameter for sex. It's a complicated combination of parameters...
...traffic was downtown. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians, nearly a million according to one estimate, surrounded Tehran's Azadi Square on Thursday morning to celebrate the 1979 revolution. The majority of those attending the pro-government ceremony were families, including the elderly and small children. Some had taken free buses, but many took the Tehran metro, which was also free to use. On main streets entering the large public space, kiosks stretched for kilometers showcasing the carnival-like atmosphere, which usually accompanies the Iranian holiday. One booth displayed a youth karate club sparring on gym mats, while another featured...