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The probe alleged that Jena's boys suffered more than 100 serious traumatic physical injuries in a two-month period. And in a separate incident, a 17-year-old who wore a colostomy bag as a result of gunshot wounds was hospitalized after an altercation with a guard. The nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jena, La.: Where The Market Fails | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impasted surface, though sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety the bursting fan of foam over the rocks in White Wave, 1954, is like a Monet haystack made of water, not grass. But the major Averys, like Sea and Sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milton Avery's Rich Fabric of Color | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

In the "S" Bend. Though the colon averages 5 ft. in length, the vast majority of diverticula are found in its last 15 inches, known as the sigmoid colon be cause it bends in an S shape from the lower end of the descending colon to the upper part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Little Bypaths | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Dr. Robertson had a lot of men & women in his office complaining of indigestion before he noticed something odd. Nearly all the symptoms (acidity, distension, belching, nausea, vomiting) might be alike, but there was one consistent difference: the men had pain from the beginning of their illness, the women had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rejection Dyspepsia | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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