Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medics decided to fly me there. When I arrived, the doctors had me on the operating table for 13 hours straight. Several times they nearly lost me. I ended up in semistable condition, with tubes running in and out of me, and breathing through a ventilator. In effect, this machine was breathing for me, because my whole body, shattered as it was, couldn't make good on my will to survive. I was sunk in a coma, unaware of the huge efforts the doctors and nurses were making on my behalf. I was oblivious to the presence of relatives...
...have to pay for expensive machines," says Dr. Leslie Baumann, director of cosmetic dermatology at the University of Miami. A walking advertisement for cosmetic procedures herself at age 33, she often favors cheaper chemical peels over lasers. "You have to be savvy. Some chemical peels can give the same effect [as lasers] at much better prices." Physicians who recommend laser work, moreover, are not always objective; some are paid consultants or stockholders in the very laser company whose machine they're using...
...have pumped 100 tons in a day; drives a Harley-Davidson; can't do comedy; quips that putting milk in coffee is for "wusses." CONS Occasional flare-ups of arthritis; has had heart surgery; favors Hawaiian shirts; unofficial slogan "Hasta la vista, baby!" now used mostly for comic effect...
...workshop run earlier this year by Peter Fraenkel, director of the PREP Couples Program at New York University's Child Study Center. Fraenkel noticed something curious: when four of the men showed an eagerness to share their feelings more extensively with their partner, the response was, in effect, "What is this guy's problem? He's so needy...
...Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds...