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...instead of a scary face mask), and, while happily preoccupied, is slipped a dose of nitrous oxide through the snorkel. Within minutes, the young patient is comfortably sedated and ready for stronger drugs, if needed. PediSedate is intended only for minor surgery, such as stitching deep wounds or inserting ear stents. For major operations like an appendectomy, anesthesia must still be delivered the old-fashioned way: through a tube placed directly into the airway. And sorry, grownups, no adult version is available. --By Janice M. Horowitz

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Game Boy | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...small bowl was some colorful plastic sea-stuff, sand and, unmistakably, a live, tail-flapping goldfish. "Hi!" read a message stuck on the bowl. "What am I doing here?" the cheeky note asked. "Let's face it. You're in Hong Kong alone and maybe you need an ear to talk to at night. I'm a great listener. I'm here as long as you want me, but if you're tired of my company, then give housekeeping a call and they will collect me." It was signed "Fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...this a lovely day to be caught in the rain?" She's heard this line before; the spoiled princess has played this game before. Biting her lip, she sits down, and he sits next to her, but really behind her, so we can see her singing into her ear. She rarely looks back at him. In the first few bars Fred keeps time by lightly slapping his thigh three times. A few bars later, Ginger keeps time with her riding crop; is it a leather metronome, or a potential instrument of torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

...with an archenemy. Now he seems content to serve out his term, which ends in 2004. With Vajpayee fading in mind and spirit, many wonder who wields the real power in India. Vajpayee's shadowy right-hand man and national security adviser, Brajesh Mishra, has the Prime Minister's ear. But consensus has it that it is the hawkish Advani, 72, his B.J.P. colleague of 50 years and heir apparent, who increasingly calls the shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bad Menu for Peace | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Merchant expounded, he ticked off a list of Tyson's misadventures - the notorious ear-biting incident in Tyson's second loss to Evander Holyfield, his evident attempts to break the arm of another opponent, South African heavyweight Frans Botha, and finally the disturbance Tyson backers caused in the Vegas venue after the ear-biting fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Black Eye? | 6/8/2002 | See Source »

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