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...books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves at twilight, the hunter's peculiar alertness to sound and smell, the rock-bottom scrubbiness of Indian life, the raw fragrance of tequila and the vile, fibrous taste of peyote, the dust in the car and the loft of a crow's flight. It is a superbly concrete setting, dense with animistic meaning. This is just as well, in view of the utter weirdness of the events that happen...
...problem, according to Dr. John H. Wulsin of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is simple gravity. "The fibrous attachments which support the breast," says Wulsin, "stretch under the influence of gravity, more so in some women than in others, and especially in those breasts naturally large or fat or pregnant or lactating...
That much most women already knew. But, continues Wulsin, "once lengthened by tension, these fibrous connections (Cooper's suspensory ligaments*) do not resume youthful dimensions, and despite hopeful legend, no amount of exercise will restore pristine mammary profile...
Until recently, surgeons had only one method of correcting damage to the eardrum-repair of the tympanum with tissue usually taken from the fibrous lining of the ear muscle. This operation sometimes thickened the eardrum and thus produced only questionable improvements in hearing efficiency. Now surgeons are perfecting a technique for replacing damaged eardrums and ossicles with healthy donor tissue. The operation offers some new hope for an escape from hearing impairment...
...most basic of these techniques involves pulling the face into shape with an internal sling made of fascia, the fibrous tissue that separates and encloses the muscles of the body. Fascial slings do not restore normal muscle control, but by supporting sagging face muscles, they help to bring a certain symmetry to the face at rest...