Word: doctor
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...center of the debate is a medical procedure in which a doctor partly delivers a late-term fetus and then uses a suction device to extract brain tissue before removing the rest of the body. Advocates on either side dispute why these abortions are performed and how many are done each year. Even doctors cannot agree: the American Medical Association supports a ban, while the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opposes...
...surest sign of K's popularity, however, is that it is seeping into pop culture: In an X-Files episode earlier this year, agent Fox Mulder had a rogue doctor dose him with ketamine in an attempt to recover memories. The Chemical Brothers, an electronic-music group, recorded a song called Lost in the K-Hole for their most recent album, which went gold last month. "K-hole" is jargon for a bad trip--too much K causes massive sensory deprivation, immobilizing and detaching a user from reality. This is not your father's groovy toke. London researcher Karl Jansen...
Even before he falls ill with the prostrate cancer that will reduce him to the impotence he so fears, Turnbull anticipates disease and death, imagining his body a "swamp in whose simmering depths a fatal infirmity must be brewing." His wife and doctor seem to him murderous, longing for his death, while his grandchildren and children seem frighteningly indifferent...
...King insisted that the Israelis supply an antidote to the poison their hit men had inflicted on Meshal. Netanyahu complied, and an American doctor from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was summoned to treat Meshal, who was released from the hospital last Thursday. But Hussein remained outraged and by Saturday was refusing even to talk to the Israelis. On that day he telephoned President Clinton and asked him to intervene to resolve the crisis. Several U.S. officials scrambled to find a resolution, urging Netanyahu to do whatever was necessary to mollify the King...
DEPRESSURIZED Who doesn't get anxious in a doctor's office? A study finds that 20% of patients prescribed blood-pressure pills actually have normal pressure when tested in a less stressful setting...