Word: boning
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Many great horses have been bigger and stronger. Arazi is small -- he stands 5 ft. 2 in. at the shoulder -- and is vulnerable in the knees. Five months ago he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove bone spurs in both his front legs, though he is now fully recovered. Yet he retains one outstanding quality: enormous acceleration. Explains Arazi's French trainer Francois Boutin: "It is not his speed that counts as much as his courage to overtake other horses at the right moment and win races." With each appearance in the winner's circle, speculation has also grown over...
...source of hope. Doctors have known for years that thalidomide is among the most effective treatments for leprosy. And last week a research team from Johns Hopkins reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the drug can also improve the survival rate of patients who get bone-marrow transplants, which are used to treat potentially fatal disorders including aplastic anemia and some blood cancers...
SOME CRITICS DOUBT the wisdom of exalting such a legendary offender of controlled substance laws. But I have a different bone to pick. Why is the Postal Service violating its ban against portraying living Americans on postage? "We've had tremendous interest in this particular stamp," says Frank frankly. And why this sudden burst of glaspost?? "I wanted Elvis' fans to play an active role in the stamp selection process...
Surgical procedures, more painful and profound, make courts more wary. Two years ago, a Chicago court refused to require twins to undergo tests to determine if their bone marrow could help their half brother who was dying of leukemia. In 1987 a Washington federal court ordered a pregnant cancer patient to undergo a caesarean delivery in an attempt to save the fetus, even though she and her doctors opposed the operation. The baby lived for just two hours. The woman died two days later. But the lower-court ruling doesn't provide a precedent because it was vacated...
Bill Clinton is a politician to the bone, as shown by his refusal to resist the draft out of concern for his "political viability." Paul E. Tsongas has been through the revolving door, serving as a corporate lobbyist. And Edmund G. Brown is a suspiciously recent convert to the "outsider" fold...