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Massachusetts’ definition of indecent assault includes “offensive touching of the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, thighs or genital area...
...what their body's like, what it's willing to do and what exercises you would not do," says Kryzanowska, whose students include people with hip replacements, bad knees and a large variety of bad-back maladies. The technique is about developing "the powerhouse"--the muscles in the abdomen, buttocks and lower back that are the collective point of origin for all Pilates exercises. "I give people homework," she says, "like exercises to do in bed before you even put your feet on the floor in the morning. We don't pop 'em into a class and command them...
...approved NeutroSpec, a technique that could make it significantly easier to diagnose appendicitis. That's good news because accurate diagnosis is a problem. Half the 700,000 cases of suspected appendicitis in the U.S. each year lack the usual symptoms of fever and pain in the lower right abdomen, and 15% to 40% of all appendectomies prove unnecessary because the appendix turns out to be normal. The new technique uses a radioactive tracer that binds to an infection-fighting white blood cell. Doctors locate the tracer using an imaging device called a gamma camera. In trials, the technique diagnosed nearly...
...enforcement business. I learned that actually firing the gun is almost an afterthought. Much more important were my stance, my breathing, my grip and my focus on the front sight of the gun. If a human target was wearing body armor, I was told to aim at the lower abdomen. "People will bleed out more quickly," my instructor said, "and a moving head can be hard...
...gunshot wounds; in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Cumbers covered stories from Omagh to Murmansk and was described by colleagues as a graceful journalist who had a gift for talking his way into sensitive places. With him in Riyadh was BBC correspondent FRANK GARDNER, 42, who survived being shot in the abdomen. The two journalists came under fire while reporting in a neighborhood believed to be a militant stronghold...