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TAKE HEART New hope for post-bypass patients. Treating the common reclosing of vein grafts with stents instead of angioplasty lowers the risk of complications...
Neither host is an expert interviewer, and Spencer can be particularly awkward, but both are fairly relaxed and pleasant presences. Each has his mildly funny moments, mining the same vein of racial humor. Spencer's joke about his show in his first monologue--"How often can a brother go into a million homes without getting arrested?"--is typical. Wayans does more comedy bits than Spencer, and while not overly original, his overdubbing of a Japanese martial-arts film with hip-hop dialogue and singing was amusing. Nothing he has done so far, though, is nearly as clever as the best...
...subject matter and an ability to write beautifully about it, the three playwrights are very different. Marber, a Londoner who got his start on the comedy circuit performing stand-up and working with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal grotesques, like the title character in Cripple, whom a young...
...killed at the intersection didn't have a clue about the missing sign. No one has ever declared a willingness to "walk a mile" to go through an unmarked intersection or congratulated herself for having "come a long way" when she got to one. But to continue in the vein of fairness, it is also true that the stop-sign thieves had throughout their young lives neglected to contribute to any major political campaign. Anyone contemplating a thoughtless act that might end up costing people their life should take a tip from the tobacco companies and start bankrolling politicians...
...grandsons have to see me like this!" A surgeon told of resorting to his pocketknife to amputate the leg of Daina Bradley. Sue Mallonee, an epidemiologist, explained the injuries seen in pictures shown to the jury: dozens of lacerations on Fred Kubasta's back; the severed jugular vein, carotid artery and esophagus of Polly Nichols (miraculously, she lived...