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...rebels had lined the square in front of the Glorietta mall they occupied with explosives to deter just such an option. (Just to make sure the deterrence wasn't lost on those monitoring the situation, two mutineers wandered away from the Glorietta to cover one bomb with a plastic garbage bag when rain began to fall.) As the afternoon wore on, more troops and tanks crowded around the square. But negotiations were also being furiously pursued. The mutineers' mall saw an endless train of negotiators - senators, military brass, even family members. The 5 p.m. deadline was extended, then scrapped...
...Doctors are not just biotechnicians. They must make judgments about, yes, the soul. Before serving a patient's will, doctors have to decide whether it is perverse and self-destructive. One has to ask what kind of plastic surgeon would repeatedly do his work on Michael Jackson. Or on the Manhattan socialite, known now as the cat woman, who had her face tweaked so many times that it changed inexorably into that of a feline...
Doctors are not just biotechnicians. They must make judgments about, yes, the soul. Before serving a patient's will, doctors have to decide whether it is perverse and self-destructive. One has to ask what kind of plastic surgeon would repeatedly do his work on Michael Jackson. Or on the Manhattan socialite, known now as the cat woman, who had her face tweaked so many times that it changed inexorably into that of a feline...
...this year’s show was undoubtedly NTT DoCoMo, the national phone company of Japan. The company does not sell its products in the U.S. marketplace, but their presence at the show was still an apparent must. The giant booth, which resembled a spaceship constructed of fluorescent green plastic and brushed steel, was lit up so that its glow radiated upon its neighbors. Inside, attractive women dressed in leather miniskirts and high heels showcased the latest in video cell phone and mobile e-mail technology now used in Japan. When I had a question they could not answer...
...clueless father and husband--and it's a timely, unsparing psychological look at, well, the psychology of looks. "All I want to do," Murphy says, referring to the J. Lo--inspired buttocks-implant fad, "is explore the reasons you would dislike yourself so much that you would have plastic dress shields shoved up your butt...