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After a rambling monologue of an infomercial by Ross Perot, a sad portrait of a man excluded from the limelight and desperately trying to claw his way back in, the debate began. The air was thick with anticipation: Would the hatchet man return? Would Bob Dole finally go for the jugular, as we suspect he has wanted to all along...
...really have to keep the momentum going into the thick of the season," game-winner Wilmot said...
...lives in hospitals as well as changing the way people live outside them. "These developments aren't just evolutionary," says Rebecca McKenzie, a head nurse who has been at Duke for the past 10 years and remembers the days when each patient traveled with a paper file six inches thick. "They're revolutionary...
...deepest impact are those that enhance sight and mobility. Nationwide, more than a million cataract procedures are performed each year to correct clouding in the lens of the eye. Until 20 years ago, the main treatment was the removal of the patient's lens and its replacement with a thick pair of cataract glasses to correct his vision. Now ophthalmologists are able to implant a new, artificial lens behind the iris, a procedure that has become so routine that it is usually done on an outpatient basis...
...Instead, he was met by several thousand angry Serbs wielding pitchforks and throwing rocks. Among them was the prospective Serb city councilman, Predrag Kujundzic, 35, a massive, one-time bouncer responsible for the "ethnic cleansing" of several Muslim villages in the area in 1992. After flattening Esad with his thick fist, Kujundzic left him to other Serbs who pummeled him with clubs and stones until, bleeding and immobile, he was thrown back into Muslim territory...