Bypass Surgery

Poly athletic director Mark Schlenoff, who suffered a heart attack on Monday, is recovering at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Towson following quintuple bypass surgery. Schlenoff, 57, the school's AD for the past 13 years, suffered the heart attack while doing yard work at his Lutherville home. He is expected to be on his feet today and should be released "Friday or Saturday," said his son, Adam Schlenoff. "Everyone's been calling," said Schlenoff's wife, Geri. "It's been wonderful. I guess when you've been around the school system for 30 years, a lot of people have concerns."

Howard County Circuit Judge Raymond J. Kane Jr. is in good condition at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore after undergoing heart bypass surgery Tuesday. "His outlook is favorable," said hospital spokeswoman Jenny Hodgins. Kane, 61, could be out of the courthouse recuperating for up to three months. Kane entered Howard County General Hospital on Monday morning after complaining of chest pains. He was transferred that afternoon to Union Memorial, where he underwent surgery Tuesday. Hodgins would not disclose what type of bypass surgery the judge underwent or when he would be released, in accordance with Kane's wishes.

Howard County Circuit Judge Raymond J. Kane Jr. underwent heart surgery yesterday at a Baltimore hospital and could be out of the courthouse recuperating for nearly three months, court officials said. Kane, 61, was listed in critical but stable condition last night at Union Memorial Hospital after heart bypass surgery. The usual recovery time for bypass surgery is eight to 12 weeks. Kane entered Howard County General Hospital early Monday complaining of chest pains, and was transferred that afternoon to Union Memorial for tests.

Finally, a reason to stay up past 11: 35 again. Monday night marked the return of David Letterman to late-night TV -- perhaps not reason enough to make the stock market surge or cause an increase in church attendance, but good news nonetheless. If the five weeks since Dave underwent quintuple bypass surgery have proven one thing, it's this: Jay Leno and his nightly love-ins are no substitute for Dave. (In fact, the Dave re-runs and people talking about Dave are preferable to Jay Leno.

Bel Air officials are mourning the sudden death of Town Administrator William N. McFaul, a longtime manager who died late Monday night while recovering from bypass surgery at University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 62. "I can't believe it," Stephen C. Burdette, chairman of the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners, said of McFaul's death, which took the community by surprise. "I feel sorry for the town because the town has lost a real advocate." As administrator for the past 20 years, McFaul managed day-to-day operations of the town of more than 8,000 residents under the direction of the elected commissioners.

It's Friday the 13th, and Tom Wolfe is dressed in camouflage.His double-breasted blazer, dark as midnight, blends with the garb of some 600 psychiatrists and psychologists who have gathered in Baltimore for a two-day symposium honoring the chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.In 35 years, Wolfe has rarely been seen out of his signature, monochrome uniform: perfectly tailored three-piece suit, tightly tabbed collar, black-and-white faux-spats shoes. But on this day in November he is dressed to fade into the crowd.

MOSCOW -- Two years after his heart bypass surgery, a documentary shown on television here last night suggested that President Boris N. Yeltsin knew he would never fully regain his strength and that he has been holding on to power ever since at the price of his health.The program, called "Yeltsin's Heart," quoted several physicians attesting to the president's recovery from the operation, but the overall impression it made was precisely the opposite. It began, for instance, with a lingering view of the wheelchair that Vladimir I. Lenin used after his debilitating stroke in 1923.

Chesapeake Biological Laboratories Inc. said yesterday that it has won a contract to formulate, fill and package two experimental fluids being developed for protecting hearts during transplant and bypass surgery.The contract was struck with LXR Biotechnology Inc. of Richmond, Calif.The companies declined to disclose financial terms of the deal.Joseph A. Twist, a CBL spokesman, said the deal calls for the Baltimore-based biotechnology contractor to provide batches of HK-Cardiosol and CP-Cardiosol for clinical trials.

MOSCOW -- Perhaps nothing was more symbolic of theschism between the old and new Russia than the day Anatoly Chubais, President Boris N. Yeltsin's chief of staff, used a personal computer at the head table during a big government meeting.Flipping open a laptop would be considered business-as-usual in other parts of the world. But when many Russians saw Chubais do it, they saw only the impudence of a techno-brat who keeps stomping his modern, westernized footprints over the gray status quo.He has been the gatekeeper to Yeltsin during the six months the president has been largely out of sight with heart problems and bypass surgery.

MOSCOW -- President Boris N. Yeltsin is able to have heart bypass surgery that will restore him to "normal activity," his surgeons said yesterday.But Russia will effectively be without a fully active leader for at least four months while the president is confined to a hospital or government health resort in preparation for and recovery from the triple or quadruple bypass.The decision to operate dispelled the major worry that Yeltsin's health might be too far gone even to allow the surgery -- a situation that would leave the nation with an incapacitated leader who might have to resign.