Word: forearms
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...past week, though, the men have been unnerved by absence of the sounds of war. "It's been quiet - really, really, quiet," said Sgt. Sergej Michaud, 24. Michaud has cropped his dark hair nearly to the scalp, and he has a tattoo of a helmeted skull on his left forearm with TANKER printed below. Like many other soldiers at the COP he relishes the chance to drive towards gunfire and separate the combatants in Iraq's sectarian war. That was routine for his platoon until a few days ago, when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing. One soldier said...
...sick / You can’t get rid of me, I’m HIV.” It’s difficult to understand why he would say something like that when his rap icon, Eazy-E from N.W.A., whose likeness The Game had tattooed on his right forearm, died from complications from AIDS...
With fresh ink on her already-crowded forearm, tattoo artist Ellen M. Murphy is an unlikely conservative. But Murphy, who has worked for the Chameleon Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio in The Garage since 2004, isn’t buying into the hype over the removable tattoo ink recently created by Dr. Richard R. Anderson, a Harvard Medical School Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). According to the Boston-based Bentkover Center’s website, which specializes in laser treatment, a deeply colored tattoo might require...
...closed like a claw, the grossest of motor skills. The third finger and pinkie, which are employed by natural hands to carry things, were frozen. Ralph's wrist didn't bend. Despite weeks of training on a computer, I had difficulty with the basic functions: my stronger outer forearm muscle kept flexing and involuntarily opening the hand--even when I was trying to close it. I had no more success with the mechanism to rotate the wrist. The simultaneous contraction of both muscles was unnatural and hard to remember in real time. When I did it right, I couldn...
...Ralph had bit the dust, replaced by a more tapered, slightly lighter shell made of carbon fiber and acrylic resin. The modifications improved my range of motion and wardrobe--I could now button a dress shirt. But I was hardly wearing a second skin. The rigid shell chafed my forearm and got so hot in the summer that sweat dripped out of a small hole used...