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| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:00:00 EST A quirky 'knife man' |
| You might not have wanted to live next door to John Hunter, surgeon extraordinaire of the 18th century. His small estate outside London teemed with exotic creatures like leopards and Asian buffaloes. Jackals and dogs howled in kennels. His oil lamps flickered into the morning hours as he meticulously dissected human corpses spirited from their resting places in London's cemeteries. But if you needed surgery, you sought out Hunter. In the mid-1700s, when major surgery often was a euphemism for amputation—with patients awake and antibiotics far in the future—he offered at least some hope. Fellow surgeons in his hospital couldn't abide him, and he was in turn contemptuous of them. Wendy Moore's The Knife Man: the Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery dissects this brusque, brilliant, impatient man, admired by the surgeons of today but a stranger to the lay public. |
| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:00:00 EST Iraq election results: A mess |
| Preliminary results from Iraq's referendum on a new constitution are in, and the result is: a mess. |
| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:00:00 EST Saddam trial won't look like Court TV |
| If all goes as planned, Saddam Hussein will see his first day in court on Wednesday, but the case against perhaps the highest-profile defendant in recent memory won't unfold like any trial familiar to Americans. |
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| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:08:15 EDT Living in a wireless world: Too much of a good thing? |
| In today's wireless society, e-mails, phone calls and office documents are a keypad touch away. Cell phones, laptops, PDAs have become a part of everyday life for millions of people. While the ease and availability of information can lead to greater productivity, it can also intrude on our personal time. For many, it's a struggle to define the limits of work and play. |
| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:13:07 EDT Hurricane Wilma projected to hit Florida |
| After days of drifting in the Caribbean Sea, Wilma became a hurricane Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center said. Wilma had top sustained winds of 75 mph and was the 12th Atlantic hurricane of the season, tying the record set in 1969. Wilma is projected to skirt the western tip of Cuba then turn to the northeast and the South Florida Gulf Coast. |
| Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:33:48 EDT Baltimore tunnels reopen after threat |
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