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...walk in the park. You have to fast for a day and cleanse your bowel before any colonoscopy. And if the doctor finds a polyp that must be removed, you still have to undergo a conventional colonoscopy--right away, ideally, so you won't have to prep twice. That's why virtual colonoscopies probably work best for those at lowest risk of colon cancer--with no symptoms and no family history of the disease, says Dr. Perry Pickhardt, the radiologist who led the study while at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda...
...only 32, he is CEO of a $500 million company. Beyond the fact that he's a hip-hop executive, Dash defies easy characterization. He loves the disco rhythms of Blondie. He has seen friends gunned down in his Harlem neighborhood, yet he attended an exclusive New York City prep school and played lacrosse in Connecticut. "Do you know how hard it was to come back to my neighborhood in penny loafers with khaki pants and a blazer?" Dash asks. And he recently produced comeback singles for the former Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham, whose British girl-band, the Spice Girls...
...have the very latest Fila sneakers. And there's that action-hero name. His mother Carol Young Dash raised Damon alone and worked a couple of jobs to provide a middle-class life for her son. Her labor, and scholarship money, enabled Dash to attend Dwight, a prestigious Manhattan prep school, and later a Connecticut boarding school. "I was around kids that had country houses and cooks and maids and stuff like that," he says, "and I didn't think anyone was that much better than me. I was like, Why shouldn't I have that stuff...
Although Griffin whips up his fighter at the prep session before the show, he has to rein him in during the show. Griffin’s is the voice in Matthews’ left earpiece offering advice sparingly throughout the show, and particularly during commercial breaks...
This acute, graceful novel begins as a dreamlike memory of a vanished world. Its setting is a New England prep school in 1960, a ceremonious, high-minded and improbably literary place where the boys compete as writers rather than as athletes and the ultimate prize is a private audience with a visiting author like Robert Frost, Ayn Rand or Ernest Hemingway (whose public personas are here deliciously sent up). All of which seems too good to be true...