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Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, was up and walking around her hospital room two days after coronary bypass surgery and may be back at her family’s home outside Boston as early as next week, hospital officials said. “We’re still saying the typical (checkout) time would be about the middle of next week,” Massachusetts General Hospital spokesman Martin Bander said. “It could go on either side of that . . . if she continues to stay on target as she is now.”
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