Word: elephantitis
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Nine whimsical chalets are set into the lush vegetation, all individually decorated with four-poster beds and terraces looking onto a stream. The live-in owners encourage back-to-basics relaxation: cycling, cooking classes with local ingredients and impromptu arts-and-crafts sessions on the lawn. "A lot of families...
She's enlisted the help of Richard Schave, who leads literary tours around Los Angeles, including one Bukowski-themed excursion called "Haunts of a Dirty Old Man." Schave explained that the De Longpre neighborhood remains the same blue-collar, immigrant community of Russians, Armenians, and Slavs that it was in...
Theroux's strength as a writer and a traveler has always come from his readiness to say and do what few of us would admit to, and it's a safe bet that these gleefully impenitent stories will not be promoted by the American Chamber of Commerce or the Indian...
Motala may be better off than she was, but even an upgraded foot won't help her walk like a normal elephant. So cases like hers have inspired surgeons to begin experimenting with some radical new approaches that could potentially transform the field of prosthetics. One method is known as...
While osseointegration has worked for at least half a dozen animals and has been attempted in at least 60 humans, mainly in Scandinavia, every animal presents surgeons with a different biomechanical challenge. Attaching a leg to a nimble, bouncing animal like a kangaroo is different from creating a limb for...