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...restoration of the 6,700-lb. statue was carried out by ten Vatican technicians, who were considerably aided in their task by the existence of a plaster cast of the Pietà that had been made 30 years ago. Using a sort of plastic surgery, they restored the shattered nose with a mixture of marble dust and special resins that duplicate the luster of the original stone...
Operations performed in outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...
...cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject" for other art, just like a bowl or a figure...
Under federal law, only a USPS postman can put mail into a home mailbox. So the private carriers often hire housewives or students, for about $1.60 an hour, to stuff their clients' mail into plastic bags and hang the bags on homeowners' doorknobs. One of the biggest of the private postal services offices, Oklahoma City-based Independent Postal System of America, Inc., began operations five years ago. Last year it deployed 5,000 full-time carriers and 13,000 part-timers through 32 states east of the Rockies to deliver mail for clients who paid $3.5 million...
...mail delivery to the private entrepreneurs. Such mail has always lost money for the Government, Olsen notes, but "we have been making a comfortable profit"-about $170,000 last year. Besides, permitting private carriers to use mailboxes would eliminate what is rapidly becoming a suburban eyesore: the sight of plastic bags hanging on doors...