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...other residents in orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was our undisputed Grand Old Man of Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...
Perhaps Brown’s plain-as-potatoes prose and wooden narration makes the book too Mickey Mouse for us. Or maybe the hype is just too loud. What business does such a straightforward thriller have selling so well...
...getting someone else to have your way. For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the most senior diplomats of the nations that invaded Iraq three years ago, the way is clear: Iraqi politicians must lay aside sectarian and factional differences, and sometimes plain old ego-tripping, and quickly form a ?national unity? coalition government to fulfill the promise of the unprecedented national elections...
While it is true that the communities in and around San Francisco have taken a number of laudable steps--constructing a whole new span for the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge, for example--it is also plain that they need to do more. There are tens of thousands of older buildings in the Bay Area that do not meet modern earthquake standards, among them office and apartment buildings whose upper floors rest atop an unreinforced storefront or garage. In an earthquake, such "soft-story" buildings are likely to collapse or sustain damage so severe that no one will be able...
Digital cameras today have large preview screens. Gone are those hard-to-use tiny buttons and dials and those confusing icons. Replacing them are touch-control screens with plain-English menus. Even sophisticated digital cameras offer a "no brains" mode; the only things you need do are frame the shot and push the button. David Henderson, 62, of Alexandria, Va., remembers his early digital cameras. "They gave you a picture that looked like it was taken off a television set," he recalls. "Today's cameras are so good, they give anybody a chance to be a darn good photographer...