1.   Climbing back to the top took not only a much publicized interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton, but also an equally publicized emergency quintuple bypass for the star himself.

2.   Doctors at Beth Israel performed emergency bypass surgery and initially, the man appeared to be recovering well.

3.   Edgar also said his decision was not influenced by heart problems he had three years ago when he had emergency quadruple bypass surgery.

4.   He said he remembers concentrating on practical problems of how all the companies could cooperate on the emergency bypass and on the cleanup.

5.   The fact is, one month ago I underwent emergency bypass surgery to replace the major artery in my heart with one from my leg.

6.   Workers installing the emergency bypass Monday night could find only one of the stakes, he said.

7.   Former Jamaican track champion Herb McKenley was in stable condition in a Miami hospital Wednesday, recovering from an emergency triple bypass operation.

8.   It came during a year Letterman had to take a break for an emergency quintuple bypass operation in January.

9.   Letterman taped his comeback show five weeks after undergoing emergency quintuple bypass surgery.

10.   Television funnyman David Letterman was cracking jokes in his hospital room Saturday as he began his recovery from emergency quintuple bypass surgery.