Remember, the point of surgery is to level the playing field for my patients and give them the same tools that will work for you, the nonmorbidly obese individual.

After the 1957 Anti-Rightist campaign, there was no way she could be an enterprise manager, and she was eventually assigned to work in the caféteria of the People’s Political Consultative Congress activity center. She immediately began to dedicate the same kind of managerial energy to running the caféteria. Not only did she help to set up a managerial system for the caféteria, she designed and ordered kitchen utensils, and personally made the Sichuan-style pickled vegetables. She converted this caféteria into a good place for Congress members to get a little good food during the years of famine that followed the Great Leap Forward.

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.

Cockroaches, centipedes, tarantulas, scorpions, and mosquitoes are abundant in summer. … Tarantulas and scorpions are little noticed by those who have been there any length of time.