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...Salvador was hoping the knee was just hyperextended, which would have required just a week or so to heal. Instead, after visiting Dr. Harlan Selesnick, team physician for the Miami Heat, he found out that he had strained his ACL and would need approximately six weeks to recover...
Sacks, originally from South Africa (a heritage that colors much of his poetry), first came to the United States as an exchange student in Detroit when he was 17. Intending to become a physician, Sacks developed his love of poetry as an undergraduate at Princeton in the early 70s, and went on to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and take a doctorate at Yale in English. He published his first collection of poems, In These Mountains, in the same year, 1986, as he published his first major scholarly endeavor, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser...
Caroline T. Koo ’04, as Paulina, the court physician, is responsible for much of the show’s trickery and carries off her role with sly charm...
...dermis, resulting in fresh skin growth. What's new is the emergence of "nonablative" lasers and light sources, including Cool Touch, manufactured by ICN Pharmaceuticals of Costa Mesa, Calif., and IPL (Intense Pulsed Light), made by Lumenis of Santa Clara, Calif. Both technologies, when used by a skilled physician, avoid even temporary damage to the epidermis and leave few if any telltale signs. For that reason--and because quick sessions can be scheduled before work or during lunchtime--these new treatments are popular among busy professionals. Cool Touch estimates that 250,000 of its procedures will be performed this year...
...Running with Scissors: A Memoir" (St. Martin's; July) was adopted by his mother's therapist at the age of 13. Afterwards, says his publisher, "his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl...