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...Rejected purports to track its animator’s unraveling as his absurdist shorts go unappreciated in the commercial world; it’s black, bizarre and riotous. It may also be the only Oscar nominee ever to feature an anthropomorphic puffball screaming “My anus is bleeding!” over and over. Friday at 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45. Brattle Theatre...
Absolutely, says Joe's physician, Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a professor of urology and gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine. Since 1997, Goldstein has been warning cyclists that hours of sitting on a bike saddle can create enough pressure on the perineum, the area between the anus and the pubic bone, to permanently damage the artery that supplies blood to the penis. On the basis of a study of several thousand men in a Boston riding club, Goldstein believes that as many as 4% of male cyclists have problems with impotence due to cycling...
...essayist Edward Hoagland, in a splendid piece called "Dogs and the Tug of Life," mentions that the dog's sense of smell is at least a hundred times as keen as a man's. He goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...
INSIDE INFORMATION Colonoscopy is probably the world's most unpopular procedure, but the notoriously uncomfortable test, in which a probe is snaked through the anus and into the bowel, is still considered the gold standard for detecting colon cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. Now there may be a less traumatic alternative. A study shows that a "virtual colonoscopy"--basically, a fancy CAT scan--is nearly as accurate (82%) as the real thing in detecting tiny precancerous polyps. The procedure zaps patients with radiation equivalent to about five chest X rays, but it's noninvasive, requires no sedation...
...Male Vagina' Actually Anus," reads the leadstory headline, clearly the result of months ofbrainstorming and focus group research...