Word: flesh-and-blood
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...leave their bodies to science, and while most people like to think of their mortal remains being gently dissected by respectful medical students, the fact is that cadavers might just as easily be sawed apart and scattered to pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms, or even used as flesh-and-blood crash-test dummies. The only hard rule, by federal law, is that under no circumstances may anyone profit from the transaction. The exception to that rule, however, is that the people handling, storing and processing the body may collect a reasonable fee for expenses. Such a loose standard begs...
...axiomatic that good journalists make lousy novelists. When they turn their writerly talents toward fiction, most reporters?particularly foreign correspondents?are undermined by the very expertise that lends authority to their dispatches. Rather than creating flesh-and-blood characters, they often produce stick figures representing various factions and points of view, who hold forth in preachy, predictable allegories. Yet in The Spice Garden, his debut novel, Michael Vatikiotis, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has constructed an engrossing narrative of mass hysteria and mob violence set in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia's spice islands, during the horrific bloodbath that...
...young twenty-something has amassed a lot of power over teens, though his father would still like to describe his flesh-and-blood as your average young guy: “If he couldn’t bounce it, catch it, throw it or date it or eat it, he had no interest in it?...
...love to golf but don't like lugging your clubs around, the remote-controlled RoboKaddy Titanium may be just what you need. Sure, you could hire a flesh-and-blood caddy to tote your clubs, but do you really want someone snickering at you every time you miss an easy putt? With the RoboKaddy, you just point the remote at the unit's antenna to get it rolling along at up to seven miles per hour. RoboKaddy isn't the only remote-controlled caddy that will hold all your clubs, but it is the only one that...
...computer keyboards to soften lighting, heighten colors or erase crowsfeet. (The hardest flaw to deal with? "Bad toes.") But in a day when fashion magazines are publishing "Frankenstars"--women assembled for the page by bolting a head from one shot to a body from another--some of the flesh-and-blood stars are protesting. In recent months Kate Winslet and Julia Roberts have complained that they were unreasonably remade (not by Dangin) on magazine covers. "Postproduction capability should not be looked at as a voodoo practice," he insists. "It's been like this forever. The black-and-white photography...