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Furthermore, it wasn't atherosclerosis or a heart attack that sent Cheney to the hospital. Rather, scar tissue had formed around the wire-mesh stent that was implanted last November to open a blocked coronary artery. This had led to a renarrowing, or restenosis, of the vessel. (Restenosis occurs in 20% of such cases.) Although one study suggests that "burnout" can trigger restenosis, the evidence is hardly conclusive and in any case doesn't apply to Cheney, who obviously relishes his job. "If you have a job you love, then you're lucky," says Dr. Alan Wasserman, chief of medicine...
...Uwajima The U.S. Navy's second-ranking officer, Admiral William Fallon, apologized in person to the families of four fisheries students, two teachers and three crew members missing and presumed dead since a surfacing U.S. submarine sank their training vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Earlier, Commander Scott Waddle, who was in command of the U.S.S. Greeneville when the accident occurred on Feb. 9, delivered to the Japanese consulate in Honolulu his own written apologies to the families of the missing, and to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori...
Scott Waddle was the commander of the U.S. submarine Greeneville when it sank the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru off Hawaii on Feb. 9, killing nine people. Waddle was relieved of his command, and this week he faces a Navy court of inquiry into the episode. Though he has been advised by his lawyer not to discuss the events leading up to the collision, he spoke to TIME's Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy about the aftermath, his feelings and the controversy over making apologies to the families of the deceased...
Shortly after the collision I raised the periscope and looked back to see what we had collided with. I was dumb struck. I had no idea any other vessel was in the area. I saw it listing to starboard and back to the stern. I remember crying out, "God, please get them off that ship." Within a minute or two it was upright and going down. I was begging God to get them off--and it was as if something died inside...
...crew were still responsible for scouring the surface with their sonar and periscope before launching the "emergency main ballast blow." The choppy waters and the ship's white color may have made detecting the trawler difficult. But Navy officers said that if, as the trawler's crew said, their vessel was steaming at 11 knots, it should have been generating enough noise to make sonar detection easy...