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...toward these operations - joint replacement has spared millions of older adults from spending their older years in a wheelchair. "We have a perfect storm of an aging population, increased demands by younger patients, a better ability to do the procedure, and increased arthritis in the general population," says Dr. Richard Iorio, a senior orthopedic surgeon at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and lead author of the paper. Painful osteoarthritis, he explains, is responsible for the vast majority of joint replacement surgery...
...Oscars Blooper Reel Richard Corliss is fully justified in griping about incorrectly awarded Academy Awards [Feb. 25]. There should be retrospective awards to correct previous errors of judgment. They could be awarded on Oscar night each year as an adjunct to the main ceremony. Citizen Kane could then - at last! - be advertised with an Oscar cachet. Not that it needs to, of course - but still. And second-place nominees in any category should automatically be included in the next year's voting, affording the Academy a more immediate opportunity to correct glaring errors. Jan Schaafsma, Betty's Bay, South Africa...
Papers and Pols I have waited five decades for someone to write about the foolishness of political endorsements by newspapers, and now managing editor Richard Stengel finally has [March 3]. For many years, I have owned and published three weekly newspapers, and we have never endorsed a political candidate at any level and never will. That's not to say we haven't published news stories that helped get some of them defeated. Don Tabor, CLYDE, TEXAS...
Anthropology Professor Richard W. Wrangham and his wife, Elizabeth Ross, will take over as Currier House masters beginning July 1, the University announced yesterday. The appointments come just over a year after former House Masters Patricia O’Brien and Joseph L. Badaracco, the deputy dean of the College and a Harvard Business School professor, respectively, announced they would step down after nearly four years in the Currier masters’ residence. “We were asked if we were interested and it seemed a very attractive position,” Wrangham said in an interview yesterday...
...explained Charlie Black, a lobbyist and senior advisor to the McCain campaign. But Black says he is not worried about the crowds. "Some of the biggest rallies in political history were for George McGovern," Black said of the anti-war Democratic candidate in 1972, who lost 49 states to Richard Nixon...