Word: legging
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...said. Glucose strips, used to measure blood sugar, were chronically in short supply, leading to haphazard insulin dosing for diabetics. On occasion, said Parrson, internists and he and other nonphysicians carried out amputations and other procedures usually performed by surgeons. "I took off an ankle and a lower leg," he recalls. "There was no one else, and if it was death or amputation, you just...
...arms. The medics wanted to know whether using a tether would be appropriate, and Auch recalls that he gave his assent, saying, "The priority is to safeguard the prisoner." A military spokesman told TIME that U.S. military personnel in Iraq do employ tethers--sometimes loosely affixed around a leg or an arm--to restrain some detainees undergoing medical treatment...
...they had struck scientific gold. "The teeth showed that [the animal's last meal] was a dinosaur, not a mammal," says Hu. On closer examination, the scientists determined that the remains were those of a juvenile psittacosaur, a herbivore known to inhabit the region. Some of the arm and leg bones were still attached to each other, suggesting that R. robustus didn't chew its food thoroughly but wolfed it down in large chunks...
...that last leg, Harvard had a commanding lead, which they maintained until...
Barrett, who placed second in the 800-meter run, won the mile in addition to the leg he ran for the relay team...