Word: partialness
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...there has been an enormous increase in less drastic procedures. Cardiologists are performing many more angiograms and other invasive tests than they did a couple of decades ago. Plastic surgeons are doing more liposuction procedures and partial face-lifts. Gastroenterologists are doing more colonoscopies and endoscopies--snaking a tube in from one end or the other of the digestive tract to take pictures. "Where 15 years ago endoscopy was a rare procedure," says Guidry, "now everybody's expected to have one periodically. There's tons of stuff that just wasn't done before...
...summer began, for me, at the Cannes Film Festival, where I was granted a partial view seat for The DaVinci Code. I saw enough of it to be mystified at the failure of the estimable Tom Hanks and the enigmatic Audrey Tatou to generate the slightest romantic frisson (pardon my French) as they darted around Europe on their anti-clerical rounds. It ended, for me, with The Illusionist, a rather handsome gaslit period piece in which I failed to understand what Edward Norton saw in the blandly beautiful Jessica Biel, even though I did like his magic tricks...
...guerrilla tactics have allowed it to inflict substantial casualties on the Israeli forces - upward of 70 soldiers since the campaign began, and 15 on Wednesday alone - and to continue fighting despite Israel's huge technological advantages. That makes Israeli control of the areas in which they've deployed partial, at best. For example, the Israeli military first announced that they had captured the village stronghold of Bint Jbeil two weeks ago, yet they have lost more than 20 men in ongoing fighting there since that date. And the decentralized and mobile nature of the Hizballah formations makes it difficult...
Judges reject full-recount request With protesters claiming fraud in the July 2 presidential vote, Mexican courts ordered a partial recount. Supporters of challenger Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to keep demonstrating...
...melanin in black and brown skin offers only partial protection from UV rays, not unlike a base tan. Although melanoma is far more common among whites, it is more likely to be fatal among blacks and Hispanics because the cancer develops undetected longer. One of the most famous people to die from melanoma: Bob Marley...