There are some worries surgeons don't share with patients before an operation. That they are going into the body blind, while carrying a sharp knife, is one of them. "It's kind of like a labyrinth. You can only see right in front of you, but not around the next bend," says Alexandra Golby, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Adds Christopher Moir, a pediatric surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., "You hope the structures look like what you've seen before, but you really don't know."
As the British government demanded the immediate release of 15 of its sailors whose boats were seized by Iranian naval vessels in the Persian Gulf on Friday, U.S. News has learned that this is not the first showdown that coalition forces have had with the Iranian military.
You'd be hard pressed to find an educator in the country who thinks financial literacy education is a bad idea. National debt has hit record numbers, and bankruptcy filings have already reached a fever pitch. But while few will contest the value of financial literacy, few can agree on the best way to get there.
AP - A Pentagon investigation will recommend that nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, senior defense officials said Friday.
AP - The House voted Friday for the first time to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by next year and pushing the new Democratic-led Congress ever closer to a showdown with President Bush.
A Pentagon inquiry will recommend nine officers, including up to four generals, be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly-fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, AP reports citing senior defense officials. The U.S. Army last year launched a criminal investigation into the death of Tillman, who gave up his career with the Arizona Cardinals to fight terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.
The U.N. Security Council will vote Saturday on a new sanctions resolution on Iran, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, Emyr Jones-Parry, said Thursday.