Word: optic
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...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...
...this procedure, performed under light sedation, doctors used a colonoscope, a flexible hollow tube with fiber-optic threads, that can be inserted to the full length of the large intestine. Inside the tube is a wire snare that emerges in a loop at the far end. Maneuvering the colonoscope, they placed the loop around the suspect polyp and passed an electric current through the wire which cauterized the polyp, freeing it from the intestinal wall. Held to the end of the colonoscope by suction, the polyp was withdrawn. Using the same instrument, the doctors visually scanned the rest...
...study of skin with Weill Cornell Medical College, the first ever collaboration between a university and a cosmetic brand. Perhaps the most revealing insight comes from Estée Lauder's research chief Daniel Maes, who notes that along with peptides and other compounds, his firm's Perfectionist cream includes optic polymers that reflect the light that hits the skin--creating the optical illusion that a wrinkle is smaller by blurring its edges. In other words, it's all about appearances. And who could argue with that...
...Ding's prosperity is shared with just about everyone living in Yiwu, China's very own North Pole. Thousands of vendors offer whirling Christmas trees with glowing fiber-optic needles, chicken-feather angel wings and that traditional favorite without which no holiday living room is complete: the plastic statuette of Santa playing electric guitar on the moon. All this might have confused Chinese consumers a few years ago, but Yiwu is feeding a ravenous demand by mainland consumers who think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas...
...retina is a thin, multi-layered membrane at the back of the eye that converts light and images into neural signals that reach the brain through the optic nerve. Macular degeneration, a disturbance of the center of the retina, is the leading cause of blindness in people over 55 years...