Word: hernia
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...oversaw the construction of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure as director of the National Gallery of Art, Brown greatly expanded its collection and the building itself, adding the gallery's angular East Wing. RECOVERING. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, 74, Thailand's King, after a hernia operation; in Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills was canned by the CanWest Global...
...Winners OZZY OSBOURNE Ex-satanic rocker gets reality show on MTV. Fans may be bummed: he can't rock quite as hard with his new, restrictive hernia truss HU JINTAO Jiang's prot?g? invited to visit Washington by none other than invisible VP Dick Cheney. Of course, he'll actually have to find Cheney first AL GORE The Non-President holds first postelection fund raisers. Gala went well until Gore insisted that everyone call him "Mr. Real President" Losers DONALD RUMSFELD The Pentagon makes plans to spread false information ... then tells us about it. Does that mean they're lying...
...John McCain, his nose bandaged because of a recent skin-cancer surgery, camped out in an office on the House side of the Capitol--across the hall from DeLay's suite--and pleaded with Republican supporters not to break ranks. House minority leader Dick Gephardt, hobbled by a recent hernia operation, phoned more than 30 Democrats to stanch defections...
...MAIL Ever wish you could carry your desktop PC with you--without giving yourself a hernia? One solution is the new AirSpeak FLAIR ($1,985), a flat, lightweight touchscreen peripheral the size and shape of a cocktail tray that connects to your computer wirelessly. The FLAIR displays whatever is on your desktop, so you can check your e-mail or surf the Web from the living room or the boardroom. And when you're finished, you can serve martinis...
...government is trying to accomplish what some of America's best entrepreneurs have failed to do so far--successfully apply the Internet treatment to the bureaucratic hernia that is health care. No other major business relies so heavily--and so inefficiently--on old-fashioned pen and paper. But health care doesn't have much spare change to spend on information technology, and the outdated systems that have been installed over the years have only made doctors more skeptical of tech's miracle cures. Billions have been lost trying to use the Net to cut the estimated $250 billion in administrative...