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...city people who don't know how to make s'mores. Then there are the overconfident ones who think they can sleep soundly on the bare ground like Clint Eastwood. And let's not forget the twitchy types who are certain they will be eaten by bears. This is the world of first-time campers...
...lustful seductress, corrupting the stoic Roman men who strayed into her orbit. European empires seized upon this metaphor of temptation and decadence: after Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Egypt, the French government issued a commemorative coin nevertheless, depicting France as a virile Roman conqueror standing over a bare-breasted, feminine figure of the East...
...Phanareth and his PHD student Anders Kjaer are running the first randomized study ever made to show that patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - the group responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in the country - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. In a bare office in the hospital, Dr Phanareth monitors patients via a pulse oximeter device and a spirometer device (for lung function) that are blue-tooth enabled and linked through a secure web connection to the hospital. Using videoconference technology, he can guide the patients on whether to administer oxygen, nebulizer therapy...
...smoke detector has come undone on one side and so is hanging precariously by a single strip of duct tape in a way that faintly turns my stomach. Without the sense that I’m investigating to any purpose, I pad from room to room in my bare feet, watching out for broken glass. There’s some vomit in the sink in the main bathroom next to the living room, and a bowl of potpourri spilled into the toilet, floating like rose petals in a duck pond. The shower is running and there are three pairs...
...holds my drink out away from her body for balance and rises up on her bare toes, then trembles a bit and falls...