Word: livered
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Many dreamers ask for family trips so their loved ones can remember happy times together. Dee Appel, 61, had worked with Making Memories in Portland, Ore., for two years when she learned her breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver. During a local TV appearance in which Appel planned to promote a fund raiser, her colleagues surprised her by awarding her wish for a "grammy camp" in Colorado with her daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren. Appel invited the kids' other grandmother, who had lung cancer, to come along. The grandkids and their two grandmas--both "bald...
...does a house party pass without a few thrown punches. Chest shoves and blistered toes are the norm, screaming is assumed appropriate, and broken bottles signify accomplishment rather than an accident. Definitively immoderate and possibly injurious, raging is an angry exertion, one neither easy on the lungs nor the liver. But the questions remain: Why did having fun become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because...
...instructed on how to look up genetic syndromes in Smith's Book of Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformity, a tome which still sits in Neonatal Intensive Care Units for aiding in visual diagnosis. So many disease states a re invisible to the onlooker. An infant born with a liver disease or heart disease may require extensive surgery, a premature baby may spend months in a neonatal intensive care unit and have lifelong medical and developmental disabilities, but they don't stand out in the kindergarten class photograph...
...were to play a drinking game along with today's Presidential press conference - and, really, what could be more fun? - I hope, for your liver's sake, you don't choose to drink every time Bush says "clear" or "clarity" or "clarifies." That'd be about 24 shots of something, and, undoubtedly, things would quickly become very unclear...
When Chicago's ban on the sale of foie gras came into force last week, liver lovers revolted. One pizzeria began serving pies topped with the fatty delicacy to protest a law that even Mayor Richard Daley called silly. Chicago isn't the only place with rules drafted by the Ministry of Loopy Laws. Here are four others...