Sep 13th, 2008 · The novelist has turned The Bonesetter's Daughter into an opera, which has its premiere at the San Francisco Opera on Saturday. Transforming the book into a libretto wasn't easy for Tan, nor was resurfacing the painful stories of her family's past.
Aug 27th, 2008 · Street life in the neighborhoods is picking up, with vendors, hawkers and street games of table soccer resurfacing. Residents of Sadr City credit the area's radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for the quiet in their impoverished neighborhood.
May 4th, 2006 · Two companies have applied for FDA approval of their hip-resurfacing devices, and trials are under way. Resurfacing salvages the bone and is considered less invasive than total hip replacement. The technique is geared to patients younger than 60 who have strong bones.