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October 18, 2007
HEALTH CARE REFORM
In September, prominent California cardiologist Maurice Buchbinder had his privileges revoked at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla after he allegedly roughed up an unruly angioplasty patient during and immediately after the procedure. Buchbinder was so irritated by the patient's combativeness that he even (according to witnesses interviewed by state medical licensing officials) delivered a pair of what could be described as "Three Stooges"? moves: bopping the patient in the head with the tip of his elbow and twisting the patient's nose until it turned "bluish."?
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT!
In August the Japanese clothing manufacturer Kochou-fuku announced a line of air-conditioned shirts, with two tiny battery-operated fans inside to evaporate perspiration (for the equivalent of about $95). One drawback: The shirt billows out, suggesting that the wearer is overweight. And among the recent recipients of Marin County (Calif.) Green Business certificates of environmental awareness was Pleasures of the Heart, a sex-toy and lingerie store that sells, among other items, rechargeable vibrators and erotic undergarments made of organic bamboo fabric.
VOICES
Last year, William McCartney-Moore, nine, was rushed to the hospital in York, England, following a seizure and, after surgery, was mute for several weeks, until he finally spoke, not in his strong "Yorkshire"? accent but in "the Queen's English"? as his mother described it (though his accent returned shortly). The outcome was similar for Czech racecar driver Matej Kus, 18, who was knocked out cold in a UK speedway accident in September, only to awaken speaking not in his habitually broken English, but with flawless diction. His new "dialect"? lasted only a few days, and Kus says that he remembers none of it.
ENDANGERED!
Biologists who have been studying "Lonesome George,"? the sole survivor of a species of Galapagos Island tortoises, told Reuters News Service in July that they are skeptical he will ever mate, even though he may live another 100 years. After so many abortive attempts to pair him with a female (even having randy young male and female tortoises demonstrate mating for him), they say George remains totally uninterested.
LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Three U.S. finance professors, working with business data provided to the government of Denmark, concluded that a company's profitability usually falls following a death in the CEO's immediate family. However, the professors found (according to a September Wall Street Journal report), that profitability slightly increased if the family death was that of the CEO's mother-in-law.
PEOPLE WITH ISSUES
Convicted sex offender Paul D. Brunelle-Apley, 26, was arrested again, in Madison Township, Ohio in September when his attempt to make up with his 14-year-old girlfriend came to public attention. According to police, Brunelle-Apley was seeing another girl on the side (age 15), and in a display of remorse, he delivered flowers and a teddy bear to his main girlfriend while she was in class at Madison High. MTW
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