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There's another important point to consider. Doctors agree that polyps measuring 10 mm or more in diameter need to be removed, although during a conventional colonoscopy, even smaller, very low-risk growths are taken out. In a virtual colonoscopy, current practice is just to watch them until the next procedure to see if they grow. "Some patients and some doctors aren't going to be comfortable leaving anything behind," predicts Dr. Thomas LaMont of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. So while the virtual colonoscopy is providing ever better results, the conventional colonoscopy is still the gold standard...
...week course, the 24 students will have fired more than 30,000 bullets. Watching Captain Ardiansyah Daulay, a 28-year-old trainee who is pumping hundreds of practice rounds out of a shiny new 9-mm Glock, Jake Wohlman, the American regional-security officer overseeing the counterterrorism project, observes, "It's all about repetition. When they're finished, these guys will be the new ?lite...
...from the Nazis with his mother in World War II and headed for America as soon as the war was over. When he arrived, he worked as an intern for some of the great LIFE photographers and developed a skill with the honest eye of the 35-mm camera...
Around 1962, Arbus switched from a 35-mm camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the hope of making them conform to conventional expectations. This is a dwarf, file under "Curiosity"; this is a retarded child, file under "Compassion." But the pictures keep refusing to fit into those files. In that refusal is the enduring power, both of the pictures and the people...
...quarter of American adults--some 50 million men and women--have trouble regulating their glucose levels. The hallmarks of this condition, which nutritionists now call metabolic syndrome, include a big waist (40 in. or more for men; 35 in. or more for women), high blood pressure (more than 130/85 mm Hg), a predisposition toward diabetes and troubling cholesterol levels in the blood...