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...body. A surgeon can more easily, and less invasively, replace knee ligaments with cadaver tissue than with a portion of a patient's own hamstring or tendon. Of course, the risk of infection can never be eliminated in any operation. But it can be managed. Ultimately, patients must weigh the risks of an implant against the benefits. It's like driving a car, says Dr. Rick Hammesfahr, an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta. "The probability of an accident is low, and the probability of dying in an accident is lower," he says. "Does that mean we should ban cars?" --Reported...
...book. He has a point, but the hard fact is that Islam's relationship with war is what many non-Muslim Americans want to know about. As 2 million to 6 million (even population estimates are politicized) overwhelmingly peaceful U.S. Muslims look on in alarm, historians, preachers and anchorpeople weigh in on whether Islam has a bloody heart or has been, in Bush's word, hijacked...
...Ballots are awfully crowded nationwide with this buck-passing. This November, voters in various states will weigh two different marijuana proposals - San Francisco's and a Nevada plan to legalize the possession of less than three ounces - as well as initiatives to reduce public employees' benefits, raise taxes, create a universal health care system, force unions to offer so-called paycheck protection to members and impose term limits...
...Security Administration (TSA), the new federal agency in charge of the nation's air security, over the baggage-screening machines the TSA has ordered to be in operation at all 429 U.S. airports by the end of the year. Denver will ultimately need 50 of these bulky machines, which weigh 10,000 lbs. apiece and stand about five feet high, and the TSA wants them placed in the main terminal, next to the ticket counters. The mere thought of this makes Baumgartner's fleshy face turn red. The machines would take up space currently needed for passengers, he argues...
...Reliance gets much bigger in India, the government may be forced to weigh whether it has become a threat to competition. But will it continue to grow? Ambani is succeeded by his two accomplished and well-educated sons, Mukesh, 44, and Anil, 42, as joint chief executives. So far, they show little of the fraternal rivalries that have split many older Indian business houses. But without the entrepreneurial founder, Reliance may settle into comfortable middle age, eclipsed by India's globally wired I.T. giants like Wipro and Infosys as exemplars of India's economic future. Still, Ambani seems destined...