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...years after the initial thalidomide disaster, researchers discovered that the drug has an almost miraculous ability to treat complications of leprosy. Then they learned they could use it against some of the potentially fatal side effects of bone-marrow surgery. The past year has brought reports that the drug may help fight tuberculosis, a common cause of blindness called macular degeneration and even AIDS...
...proved it by beating Old Dominion and Temple over spring break. Once school started against the team followed the victories with an unconvincing win over Yale, during which junior Megan Colligan sustained a leg injury that seemed to be nothing serious but turned out to be a broken bone. The injury did not heal until the playoffs...
...most disturbing, grotesque pictures Ihave ever seen, page after page of unflinchinglyclinical photos of people whose faces have beenmangled beyond recognition. These shots areaccompanied by case histories and the appropriate"after" shots, being after, as it were, a skingraft from the armpit to the cheek or the removalof a bone aberrantly protruding from some poorsoul's chin. The introduction says that it "is nota book to save or keep on the shelf. It deservescare ful reading by the practicing plastic andreconstructive surgeon." Indeed...
...incredibly personable," says Robison professor of Business Administration James I. Cash Jr., who chairs the school's MBA program. "He doesn't have a pretenious bone in his body...
...McCarthy brought out Blood Meridian, an apocalyptic epic, his Moby Dick, about a scalp hunter in the 1840s; to read it is to say goodbye to peace. Few did read it. McCarthy continued to live close to the bone in El Paso, a close-to-the-bone kind of town, just across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. He golfed, shot pool, ate modest portions of simple food at a cafeteria nearby and at a clattery coffee shop, hung with a couple of lawyers, an artist, an academic and a Nobel-prizewinning physicist next door in New Mexico, saw some...