Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had eye socket surgery today, and it wasn’t too simple:The operation involved opening a window in Giffords’ skull through an
incision over her eyebrow, removing the rim of her eye socket, removing
the bone fragments and then reconstructing the socket with the help of
metal mesh, doctors said. She will need another skull repair surgery,
but that will be done later.
Steve Jobs has announced that he will take a fresh medical leave from Apple, Inc. He didn’t offer details. Steve Jobs also took medical leave in 2009, when he had a liver transplant. Here’s a helpful chronology of his health problems from the LA Times.This was his note to employees today:Team,
Here’s a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., one said to be the last before he was killed:
The great James Earl Jones was born on this day in 1931. Happy 80th birthday to him!
Here’s Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, holding an NFL football last night just minutes after being named to her new post.
Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, exults as she receives her crown in Las Vegas on Saturday night, 15 January. She’s only 17 years old.
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s right leg has gone the way of her first eight husbands. Gabor and the leg were formally separated on Friday.
Our own Mr. Duffy recommends the Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. 1,082 titles, “all great works of literature totaling nearly half a million pages,” from Shakespeare to the great Somerset Maugham.No, they’re not digitized: it’s actual paper copies, shipped on your very own 750-pound pallet.Per Kottke:
Charles Nelson Reilly would have turned 80 today, had he not died in a few years back, alas. He was born on this day in 1931.
President Barack Obama spoke in Tucson yesterday after the shooting that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Here is the transcript of President Obama’s speech, given at McKale …..