Word: raye
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...When I touch her long, skinny foot, it hurts at one particular spot. This is where it hurts when she tries to dance. The X-ray at first glance is normal, but if you look very carefully there's a little disruption of the lace-like pattern of the bone's spongy internal architecture at exactly the spot where it hurts. (This X-ray, by the way, was read as "normal" by the radiologist. Only an MRI or bone scan will reliably show the fracture to someone who has not had the opportunity to examine the patient and focus...
...Victoria seems pretty together, I get the strong impression that she wants to dance and the X-ray, which I have now examined with a magnifying glass, definitely shows the fracture...
Grammy Awards were handed out last week in 107 categories. If you didn't win one, you probably weren't trying. (Or you were up against Ray Charles' much-loved, little-listened-to Genius Loves Company.) Here, TIME's Josh Tyrangiel picks through the albums the 17,000-member recording academy rewarded and a few it mysteriously overlooked to find ones you will like...
...gloom my Arab contacts see one ray of hope-James Baker, the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group. Most Gulf Arabs-Sunnis, to be sure-look at Baker as a friend. Baker was the brains behind the U.N.-sanctioned coalition that drove Saddam out of Kuwait. Baker had the sense to leave Saddam in power, knowing full well the alternative was civil war. The Iraq policy Baker put in place in 1992 gave the Gulf eleven years of peace...
...pain in her side and was told by the doctor that she had coughed so much that she had torn rib cartilage. In fact, he said, she was lucky not to have actually cracked a rib, an occurrence so common that she was routinely sent for an x-ray...