Word: colonics
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...abdominal wall. Cutting through abdominal muscle is not only painful, but can also cause complications: up to 5% of (or 50,000) surgery patients later develop hernias, Horgan estimates. The new technique requires cutting too, but generally just one incision through internal tissue - of the stomach, vagina or colon - which is far less sensitive and which heals more quickly than external wounds. "What we are saying now is how do we improve laparoscopic surgery? How do we go from five incisions to one, or five to none?" says Horgan...
...astronautics, but much of his fascination for outer space was inherited: in 1960 his father George Low was a member of the NASA team that first suggested to then President John F. Kennedy the possibility of putting a man on the moon within 10 years. Low died of colon cancer...
...papers,” she says. In a photograph of her refrigerator, which is absent from the exhibit but is included in the exhibition catalogue, the appliance bears a magazine pullout entitled, “Do I Dare to Eat a Strawberry?” A jar of Colon Cleanse sits on top of the fridge next to a box of Cheerios.Calling herself a “technophobe,” Davey says she is old-fashioned in an era when digital photography and manipulation runs rampant. “Photography has changed so much away from that kind...
...least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more distractions. You type out your title. Despite exhaustion, the standard punctuation easily flows out as you make sure your...
...subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...