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...were not anticipating such a dramatic reduction," said lead author Dr. Atul Gawande, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and staff writer for the New Yorker. "We had initially planned the size of the study to pick up a 15% reduction in complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: A Simple Surgery Checklist Saves Lives | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Henderson couldn't give up the sport. He went to play for the minor league Newark Bears in an attempt to prove that he was still a viable player. He then played for the even more minor San Diego Surf Dawgs, which, a team publicist admitted to The New Yorker was often assumed to be a girl's softball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickey Henderson | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...They kept that s--- a secret from me...I wish they had told me. My God, could you imagine Rickey on 'roids? Oh, baby, look out!" - Denying using steroids during his career, The New Yorker, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickey Henderson | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame." - On his inability to make it back into the major league because, as he suspected, most people took it for granted that would make it into the Hall of Fame one day, The New Yorker, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickey Henderson | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...Without exaggerating one inch, you could find fifty Hall of Famers who, all taken together, don't own as many records." - Bill James, baseball statistician, on Henderson's laundry list of accolades, The New Yorker, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickey Henderson | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

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