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Every year, at least 200,000 Americans with chronic lower back pain turn to spinal-fusion surgery for relief. The Food and Drug Administration has approved an alternative called the Charit�. It's an artificial disk--high- density plastic sandwiched between metal plates--designed to replace the natural fluid-filled disks of the lower spine when they are damaged by degenerative disk disease. Doctors hope the Charit�, which has been used in Europe since 1987, will allow patients more freedom of movement than the spinal-fusion procedure...
...everyone from Southern California like myself. This trend began with Orange County, the hopelessly terrible movie with Jack Black and Forrest Gump’s kid, and now, I feared, this would become a long-running fad. Having grown up in Orange County—specifically Irvine, a particularly plastic suburb—my whole life, I knew from firsthand experience that life there was not engaging or dramatic enough to merit a movie, let alone an entire television series. Plus, calling Orange County The O.C. would be like calling San Francisco...
...smart.” Let’s take a break, shall we, and revel in the fun and sun that—though fictitious, airbrushed and far too dramatic—still entertains in the way television should. That is, without forcing insecure people to undergo numerous plastic surgeries. Let’s get back to where television really belongs—in wealthy Southern California, where teenagers sleep with their friends’ moms. Fox, you never disappoint...
...perfect. A bright light facing the front of the stage serves as both religious illumination and a movie screen. When they are not on stage, the actors other than Cozzens and Fishburn sit in stalls, each illuminated by a bare light bulb and containing a gleaming wire and clear plastic mask of a horse’s head (created with obvious care by Andrea E. Flores ’05, Shaun Rolly, and Nancy Lewis). As the action calls for it, they strap on the masks and walk onto the stage as horses, with a high-stepping horse-like gait...
...first album, No Kill No Beep Beep, which showed some positive post-hardcore influences, their second album (sans bassist), Different Damage, softened up a bit on some tracks (“Soft Pyramids”), but elsewhere managed to get a bit more dance-y ( “Black Plastic Bag”). Power, unfortunately, lacks any of the redeeming qualities of their first two attempts. After an opening track (“Wonderful People”) that sounds as if they can’t decide whether the sound they want to go for is more of an imitation...