Word: todays
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...more than ever, you have to plan ahead for surgery. As recently as 15 years ago, most patients checked into the hospital the night before their operation and stayed at least a day or two to recover. Today more than 60% of all operations occur on an outpatient basis. Chances are good you're going to be a bit groggy when you get home and in no condition to figure out what to do. "You should start a list of questions the minute you find out you need surgery and keep refining that list," advises Jane Rothrock, professor of perioperative...
Genre hopping is the favorite sport of today's pop stars, and few performers play the game better than Beck. On his major-label debut, Mellow Gold (1994), Beck helped re-energize folk motifs by combining them with hip-hop beats. On his new album, Mutations (DGC), Beck has mostly abandoned hip-hop. His new sound draws largely from older, traditional styles: pure folk, blues and, on the spirited song Tropicalia, bossa nova. The energy of Beck's hip-hop/folk experimentation is missed here; this is a ruminative album that's more about quiet revelation than sonic revolution...
...market for the short story has not discouraged Alice Munro, who, with the publication of The Love of a Good Woman (Knopf; 340 pages; $24), now has 10 volumes of stories to her credit. But it's Munro's quality, not quantity, that puts her in the company of today's most accomplished writers of fiction at any length...
...represents the best kind of journalism. Unfortunately, government giveaways to corporations have a long, rich history in the U.S. Mining companies can still take advantage of laws enacted in the 1800s that allow special privileges. The only difference between this and the corporate welfare you reported on is that today the federal and local governments are selling off our future at bargain rates. DAVID BROOKS Fox River Grove...
...think the space flight of John Glenn was only an exercise in nostalgia, as Charles Krauthammer seems to suggest in his commentary "What Happened to Destiny?" [ESSAY, Nov. 9]. Today travel between North America and Europe is not considered dangerous or particularly adventurous, but to draw on Krauthammer's analogy, 500 or even 200 years ago, it was quite an enterprise. Perhaps in another 36 years, when I am 69, I will benefit directly from a medical discovery made in space, or even be able to go to the moon on a commercial airliner because of people like Glenn...