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...Pentagon's beat cop in the world's toughest neighborhood, a slice of potential trouble that includes Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, in his office at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.--decorated with colorful grooms' gowns from Central Asia--Franks sat down with TIME correspondent Mark Thompson. Excerpts...
...last fall in Reed City, Mich., at 64. The sisters were identical in so many ways that Eastlund naturally wondered whether she too might be carrying a time bomb in her brain. "I just want to put my mind--and my family--at ease," she told Dr. B. Gregory Thompson, chief of cerebrovascular surgery at the University of Michigan...
Unfortunately, Thompson couldn't do that for her. Although Eastlund wasn't prone to headaches or the other symptoms, tests revealed that she had an aneurysm in her brain, just as her sister...
...Illinois followed 141 aneurysm cases for an average of 16 months. They report that none of the patients suffered any subsequent bleeding, and in 85% of the cases the coils largely or completely filled in and blocked the aneurysm. The scientists did not provide a direct comparison, but Thompson reports that of the more than 500 aneurysms he has clipped, all but four closed up completely...
While he sees the value of coiling for hard-to-reach aneurysms, Thompson, like a lot of neurosurgeons, is still a little skeptical. "Sixteen months isn't long enough," he says. "We won't know for sure how effective the coils are until we follow patients for 10 years or more." Eastlund, unfortunately, doesn't have that long. She has to make a decision in the next few weeks...