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...surgeons first tried using the excimer laser to correct vision in a procedure called photorefractive keratectomy. They scaled off the cornea's outermost protective layer, or epithelium. Then they vaporized some of the underlying tissue with the laser, forcing the cornea to flatten or steepen, depending on the correction. Although the epithelium always grew back, the cornea retained its new shape. It was a big improvement over radial keratotomy, although the healing of the epithelium remained painful...
...rubdown is finished without a body-giggling round of karate chops. Flatten the hands and vigorously pound with the pinky side. Chopping is fair game from the neck all the way down to the tush. Tip: Get the massagee to speak and listen to the fragmented tones. Avoid bodily trauma by striking lightly...
...Talil air base in southern Iraq against British and U.S. warplanes. Both times the pilots under attack jinked their planes in evasive maneuvers, avoiding the missiles. Then Air Force F-16 Falcons and Navy EA-6B Prowlers roared in with HARM antiradar missiles and precision-guided bombs to flatten the batteries...
...they were both fat girls with hair and work problems, and Tripp liked hearing awful things about Clinton, whom she despised and wanted to write a book about. By turns manipulative and sympathetic to the heartbroken Lewinsky, Tripp at one point wants to kick certain presidential body parts and "flatten [them] into little pancakes so he can never use them again." She presses Monica to hold out for "a kick-ass job." She slams Currie for her "sheer stupidity" in not helping Monica to see more of Handsome, who, by the way, tells Monica he doesn't think of himself...
...This has put the networks in a squeeze, as license fees for hit shows and major sports events have soared (CBS just paid $4 billion for eight years of American Football Conference games--more than double the cost of the last contract) and advertising-rate increases have started to flatten. "The big-gauge networks are like Detroit in the 1970s," says Diller. "In the next three years, they will all be confronted with a massive retooling effort...