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...Doctor, Doctor A virulent outbreak of gimpy footballers turned sports pages into anatomical journals during the World Cup run-up. David Beckham's tender left metatarsal (that's a foot bone) was first under the microscope, but Beckham's fast-healing foot has been upstaged lately by the inflamed left thigh of Zinedine Zidane. His torn leg muscle, an injury incurred during a friendly against co-hosts South Korea, means the French superstar will sit out his country's first two games. He joins a pre-Cup E.R. crowded with fallen warriors, including Germany's Michael Ballack, Italy's Filippo...
Imagine getting a call from your doctor one fine afternoon and being told that you are going to get cancer. You seek a second opinion, only to be told that you probably won't get cancer after all; it's just that the first doctor wanted to hedge his bets in case you ever got sick and sued for malpractice. Just as you are absorbing that dark bit of news, a third doctor breezes in to assure you once again that you're safe from cancer--but you will contract a fatal illness of some kind at some point soon...
...liver, I boarded the Eins Soya ferry at Korsakov for the five-and-a-half-hour trip across the Sea of Okhotsk to Wakkanai, Japan. Chekhov, too, intended to take a boat to Japan from Sakhalin, but a raging cholera outbreak on the Japanese side caused the good doctor to cancel his trip. I soon passed out in a deck chair for the duration of the ferry ride?but not before musing that, one day, return journeys to Sakhalin might even be fashionable...
...ones--to be vigilant. Think of cancer as a chronic condition, one you will have to stay on top of for the rest of your life. (This is also true for people at high risk for cancer who have been lucky enough to escape it so far.) Ask your doctor regularly if you're doing everything you can to keep the tumors at bay. The latest studies suggest that prevention really is the best medicine...
...pave the way for the acceptance and development of commercially constructed "smart" rooms and buildings that can dynamically adapt themselves to the needs of their inhabitants. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Fashion That Makes You Feel Good It used to be an apple a day was the best trick to avoid the doctor, but soon just putting your clothes on in the morning could help. Palmers Lingerie of Austria offers tights that react to body heat and release vitamins A, B and C into the skin. Scientists at Germany's Hohenstein Institute Textile Research Center are working on a range of healing clothes...