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Still not ready to sign up for a colon exam? Researchers are trying to perfect the so-called virtual colonoscopy, which doesn't require threading any medical instruments into the colon. Instead, doctors rely on cat-scan imaging to create a computer-generated 3-D picture of the inside of the intestine. It's still not clear, however, how accurate the new technology is. So don't put off getting the tests that are available today in hopes of taking a less invasive one later...
...glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...years Age of the oldest cat on record, Ma, an English tabby, euthanatized...
...arrival I got a look at the animal life in the Wise household: a friendly tortoise-shell cat, Alice; Marbury Madison, the ears-akimbo German shepherd/Rhodesian ridgeback mix who looks like a cringing, neurotic mess; and the 26-month-old Wise twins, Christopher and Siena, holy terrors known in the family as "the soldiers of entropy...
Fomenko, 37, calls himself a reformed hunter. A Siberian native, he spent many years earning a living by legally shooting and trapping the taiga's mink and sable. Comfortable even when the temperature hits -40[degrees]F, Fomenko can glide through the deep snow like a cat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, so his footprints disappear in the steps of his prey. Now and then he stops, sable hat in hand, to do what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know...