A-2 THE NEW MEXICAN Monday, September 13, 2010
NATION&WORLD
In brief
Gas pipeline in blast
was ranked high risk
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Federal and
state investigators say the section of
natural gas pipeline that ruptured and
exploded in a deadly fireball near San
Francisco had been categorized as high
risk because it ran through a highly
populated area.
Documents obtained by The Associ-
ated Press showed that Pacific Gas &
Electric submitted paperwork to regula-
tors that said a section of the same gas
line — about two and half miles from
the blast — was within “the top 100
highest risk line sections” in the utility’s
service territory.
A PG&E spokesman confirmed Sun-
day that the section of pipe mentioned
in the documents was on the same line
as the segment that ruptured and located
several miles north of the explosion.
The federal Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration said
PG&E had classified the 30-inch diameter
transmission line as a “high consequence
area” requiring more stringent inspec-
tions called integrity assessments, agency
spokeswoman Julia Valentine said.
Nationwide, only about 7 percent of gas
lines have that classification, she said.
Chile crews hit snag
on rescue tunnel
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile’s mining
minister acknowledged that a prob-
lem has stalled the most advanced of
three tunnels being drilled to 33 miners
trapped underground and said officials
might have to restart the bore hole in
another location.
But Laurence Golborne insisted Sun-
day that the setback is within the range
of problems foreseen by authorities
before the rescue began, and does not
significantly alter the expected timeline
for getting the men out.
Work on boring the hole stopped last
week when a drill struck an iron support
beam for a mine shaft at about 900 feet
(300 meters), destroying a drill bit. A
replacement part was rushed from the
United States, but engineers have so far
failed to recover all of the broken metal
using magnets.
Clinton in Mideast
talks this week
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton is shepherd-
ing Mideast talks this week that she
says may be the last chance for peace
between Israelis and Palestinians.
Clinton and former Sen. George Mitch-
ell, President Barack Obama’s special
envoy to the region, planned to be in the
Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt,
for talks Tuesday with Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas.
They’re scheduled to shift to Jerusa-
lem for a second day of talks Wednesday.
The most immediate obstacle for
negotiators is a Palestinian demand
that Israel extend a curb on new hous-
ing construction in the West Bank — a
constraint that Israel says will expire
Sept. 26.
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Lady Gaga accepts the award for best pop video for ‘Bad Romance’ at the MTV Video Music
Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Presenting the award were Amber Riley, left, Cory Monteith,
and Jane Lynch, of the show Glee. Matt Sayles/The Associated Press
Luck be a Lady
Lady Gaga sweeps over his misbehavior when he
interrupted her speech last year.
MTV awards There were performances from
Usher, Eminem and Rihanna,
The Associated Press Justin Bieber and Linkin Park, and
appearances by Nicki Minaj and
Lady Gaga swept the MTV the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore.
Video Music Awards on Sunday Host Chelsea Handler gave
with eight wins. Gaga accepted the show its traditional bawdi-
her video of the year award for ness. A pre-taped portion of her
“Bad Romance” with an outfit opening featured the host getting
sure to anger PETA: a dress and spanked multiple times by show
chapeau made of what seemed participants backstage halbefore
to be cuts of raw beef. It was one running into Lindsay Lohan,
of her three outrageous outfits of who also gave her a swat.
the evening. “Have you been drinking?”
Cher gave Gaga her award and Lohan demanded from Handler.
noted she had been raising eye- “Do you think anyone wants to
brows while Lady Gaga “was still work with a drunk? Take it from
Baby Gaga.” Gaga was teary-eyed me! They don’t!”
when accepting her trophies, and Later, on stage, Handler
sang the title of her new album implored the all-star audience
as she accepted the last award: to get wild. “I want to encourage
“Born This Way.” everybody to be on their worst
Taylor Swift absolved Kanye behavior,” she said. “I want to
West of last year’s onstage sin turn this mother out. ... Get your
with one somber song called tongues ready because I want
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“Bad Romance”
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“Uprising”
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Cardiac
bypass
underused,
study says
Data suggest stenting
carries higher risk
By Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Tens or even hun-
dreds of thousands of Americans are
having coronary artery angioplasty and
stenting every year when they should
be having bypass grafts, and the result is
an extra 5,000 or more deaths annually,
researchers said Sunday.
Patients and cardiologists frequently
prefer angioplasty and the insertion of a
stent to keep arteries open because it is
quicker and easier, and patients go home
sooner and return to work more quickly.
But new data from a major European-
American study on more than 1,800
patients show that three years after the
procedure, those who got stents were
28 percent more likely to suffer a major
event, such as a heart attack or stroke,
and 46 percent more likely to require
a repeat procedure to reopen arteries.
They were 22 percent more likely to die.
“This is one of the strongest studies
yet demonstrating that, in advanced cor-
onary disease, bypass has a real patient
advantage,” said Dr. Robert Guyton, chief
of cardiothoracic surgery at the Emory
University School of Medicine, who was
not involved in the study.
“This will change practice,” he said.
“It may not reverse some of the use of
stenting, but it is certainly going to slow
it down and make people think. Stenting
is a little bit easier on you and the return
to work is quicker. But the benefits of
surgery are more enduring and tend to
emerge as time goes by.”
“Anytime that you compare angioplasty
and surgery, the longer you go, the bet-
ter surgery looks,” said Dr. Michael J.
Mack, first vice president of the Society
of Thoracic Surgeons and a co-author of
the study.
Coronary-artery bypass grafts, com-
monly called CABG (pronounced cab-
bage), were the first treatment for blocked
arteries. In the procedure, a blood vessel
removed from elsewhere in the body, most
often the chest or the leg, is used to bypass
the blocked area, providing a new channel
for blood to flow to the heart.
Hospital stays generally last five or six
days, and the patient can return to work
after a few weeks.
In recent years, however, cardiolo-
gists have turned more and more to bal-
loon angioplasty, in which a catheter is
threaded through a blood vessel in the
groin to reach the blockage and a balloon
is inflated at the site to compress the
plaque. Physicians began inserting bare-
metal stents, spring-like devices that
hold the artery open. Hospital stays are
typically overnight, and the patient can
return to work after a couple of days.
More than 1.3 million Americans now
undergo angioplasty every year, com-
pared with 448,000 who undergo bypass,
according to the National Center for
Health Statistics.
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