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Casale was charged with implementing the new plan. The first thing he and his team did was take 20 general steps all surgeons follow throughout a bypass episode and try to sharpen them in a way that would remove as much chance and variability as possible, going so far as to spell out the specific drugs and dosages doctors would use. The result was an expanded 40-step list that some surgeons balked at initially, deriding what they called "cookbook medicine." Once doctors began following the expanded checklist, however, they grew to like it. After the first 200 operations...
North Korea continued its one-step-forward, one-step-back approach to diplomacy this month, encouraging and alarming nations trying to get Pyongyang to the table to discuss nuclear disarmament...
...biggest bill of the century, she's now one of a handful cutting the deal. When the Clinton Administration attempted to pass health-care reform, Finance was its graveyard. This time, the idea survived the committee with unified Democratic support and a veneer of bipartisanship. It's a major step--but far from the final one. "My vote today is my vote today," Snowe said. "It doesn't forecast" what she might do down the road. In politics, as LBJ knew, the power of yes is meaningless unless twinned with the menace...
...have six or seven freshmen on the field,” Princeton coach Julie Shackford said. “From game to game, we don’t often know which ones are going to step up...at the end of the day, [Hoy is] our most dangerous in terms of getting behind people, putting defenders on their heels, that kind of stuff...
Despite a fresh warning by the Taliban on Oct. 24 asking Afghans to boycott next month's presidential election runoff, both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and rival Abdullah Abdullah launched the second round of their campaigns, the first step toward bringing resolution to an election that has been mired in fraud and controversy. But will Afghans overcome their suspicions and security fears in order to turn out in enough numbers to bestow legitimacy on this next round...