Word: masks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie poignance fills the chamber...
...something was a penis." Jansen, who plans to donate her brain to Swaab's study when she dies, underwent a sex-change operation five years ago. She speaks for many transsexuals when she describes her transformation as a liberation: "I felt as if I could finally take off a mask that I had been wearing for a long time." With Jansen's help, scientists may someday understand how that mask got there in the first place...
...some of the little details are wanting. Scene changes could benefit from background music to mask the sounds of moving furniture and unzipping clothes. Jen's apartment seems to have only one room, including a miraculous bookcase which serves as not only a cupboard and a refrigerator, but also a stove for cooking invisible spaghetti. Joan seems to have no personal possessions. When she and Jen go to a cafe, Joan has neither purse nor pockets. Inexplicably, Jen and Jack are dressed identically in the final scene...
George Clooney must look good in a mask too. The ER star's about to sign on to play the Green Hornet, grandnephew of the Lone Ranger, who also runs around fighting crime in disguise. Clooney will get $3 million for the role, according to Variety. Jason Scott Lee is in talks to play sidekick Kato (no relation...
...side effects, two studies last week showed that both antacids and H2 blockers may mask symptoms of bleeding ulcers among people with rheumatoid arthritis. These patients often take the pills thinking they will relieve bleeding that can occur with high doses of rheumatoid-arthritis drugs like ibuprofen. While neither H2 antagonists nor antacids cause bleeding, they may keep those with ulcers from recognizing the need to seek help. H2 blockers still have fewer side effects than antacids. (Tagamet may interfere with the body's ability to metabolize certain drugs, but the incidence, say researchers, is not significant.) Meanwhile, calcium-based...