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Baker's detractors say he fails to bone up on complex issues, relying on his staff to sweat the details. He has been called overcautious, too reluctant to challenge Reagan's views on issues like defense spending. And besides taking heat from archconservatives outside the White House who questioned his loyalty, Baker often tangled with such longtime Reaganauts as Edwin Meese and William Clark. "My job is not to go into the Oval Office and advocate a view because I happen to believe it strongly," said Baker last year. "My job is to let the President know what I think...
...lifting 50-lb. dumbbells with his recovered arm, and Allison, now 8, is running and jumping on two healthy legs. The treatment that made their recoveries possible is a delicate, experimental form of surgery called the free vascularized fibular graft. This procedure uses segments of the fibula, the secondary bone in the lower leg, to replace large sections of bone elsewhere in the body that are missing or damaged as a result of accidents or such diseases as osteomyelitis. It also opens up the possibility of saving the limbs of some of the 1,900 Americans who are afflicted each...
There is nothing new about using the fibula as a spare part. Important to four-legged animals, the bone is not essential to man, though the lower 30% helps to anchor the anklebone. As a result, surgeons have long used pieces of the fibula to patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases...
...grafts are possible. The procedure permits nourishing blood vessels to be transplanted along with the needed fibula section. The operation depends on painstaking microsurgical techniques developed in the 1960s that allow teams of surgeons, operating under a microscope, to reconnect the fragile transplanted vessels. Supplied with blood, the grafted bone will adjust to its new location and eventually become almost indistinguishable from the host bone...
...bare bone of Beckmann's message is that fame, money and the love of women are not all they are said to be, but the strange, staid-looking conviction with which Beckmann invests his personages carries his painting beyond moralizing to something like magical invocation, a raising of the worst noonday ghosts of the '30s. He was certainly one of the great fabulists of modern art. But unlike the surrealists, he was not content with the effort to tap into a collective unconscious through the littered cellar of the individual self. And unlike lesser but more popular artists like Marc...