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The organ-transplant patients show up early for this appointment, lining up in front of Richard Link as he starts the session with a soothing, authoritative voice that makes him sound more like a doctor than a man who is on his fourth kidney himself.
Let's start with a deep breath," Link tells the half-dozen middle-age and elderly men and women gathered in the lobby of a building on the campus of Methodist University Hospital.
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Comedian Chevy Chase depicted the late Gerald Ford as a bumbling and accident-prone president 30 years ago on "Saturday Night Live," but he says the two shared a more serious link.
Former first lady Betty Ford's courageous decision to talk publicly about her problems with alcohol inspired him to get treated for his own drinking habits, Chase wrote in an essay published in Saturday's editions of The New York Times.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Flight 523 from New York had just touched down, and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.
The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep ravine. Yet all 163 people on board survived.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce airstrikes Friday - including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the militants' deepest rocket strike inside Israel to date.
After days of desultory diplomacy, Washington said it was near agreement with France on a U.N. cease-fire resolution, possibly by early next week. But Israel and Hezbollah showed no signs of holding their fire.
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Soldiers at Fort Carson have spent a lot of time this year holding flags at ceremonies.
At command changes, flags are passed from one leader to the next. In the case of the 7th Infantry Division, its flag was ceremoniously folded for a trip to a storage locker while a new flag to denote a headquarters at the post, Division West, was unfurled.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.
The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep ravine. Yet all 163 people on board survived.
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A two-mile, $92.4 million extension of the deep tunnel sewage storage system on Milwaukee's north side would substitute for two sewer projects and provide further protection against sewage dumping, sewerage district officials said Thursday.
The tunnel project, and a $13 million job, would cost about $47 million more than the projects they'll replace, said Michael Martin, technical services director for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Flight 523 from New York had just touched down and passengers were applauding the pilot's landing in the South American country Saturday when something suddenly went wrong.
The Boeing 737-800 slid off the end of a rainy runway, crashed through a chain-link fence and broke in half just short of a deep ravine. Yet all 163 people on board survived.
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MACHIAS - Several downtown beautification projects will soon be in place and members of the town's downtown revitalization committee are hoping they will have a big impact.
A decorative iron fence, paid for jointly by the committee and landowner Sandi Bryant, soon will be installed where a chain link fence now protects a sharp drop-off. The fence surrounds a deep hole where a building once stood but burned down years ago. The site is now an interpretive garden, created by Bryant, and the entrance to municipal parking by the Machias River.
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Alyeska, a household name in Alaska, is making strides to improve safety, even though it was not always thought of as an environmentally conscious com...