Search Details

Word: beams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...present, I am on hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand and accept the power of strenuous mental exercise to increase our capacity for works of genius, we may all ride through space on a beam of mental light and meet Einstein himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...BEAM ME UP, ALBERT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Even setting aside the hucksterism, laser surgery is hardly a risk-free procedure. Lasers work by emitting a powerful beam of light that vaporizes skin. Though some newer lasers can skip the top layer, or epidermis, penetrating to the lower dermis to kill abnormalities and hair follicles, lasers "wound" the skin to some degree, and healing can have complications. Long-term effects can include pigmentation changes in the skin: patients with darker complexions, such as African Americans or those of Mediterranean origin, are especially susceptible to skin lightening. And everyone is vulnerable to doctors or technicians who do not handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes. "It's unbelievable. It took 10 minutes, and then you go home," says Bank, whose husband David, a dermatologist, did the work. "No hospital, no anesthesia, no stitches. It's just a little beam of light and it's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...NAME: "Beam Me Up" Scottie Pippen OCCUPATION: Trash-talking hoopster BEST PUNCH: Hardly contrite, responded, "I wouldn't give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint...If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry fat butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | Next