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...stayed in the hospital for five days receiving anticoagulants. It didn't put her off flying altogether, but it did make her aware of some of the unexpected hazards of air travel. "I'm fortunate to be alive," she says. "Airlines can't just bury their heads in the sand. They have a duty to inform people of the risks of flying...
...told him we might not extend the lease, but he didn't want to hear it," Niles says. "He just stuck his head in the sand...
...bracing time reversal, will suck the gaudy Clinton era backward into a grainy trauma of black and white. Unthinkable reversions become possible - mass unemployment, who knows? We have already seen California's power grids shuddering. Will grass sprout through the silicon chips, and all that brilliant information revert to sand, and Gates to Ozymandias? Maybe not, but there's a chill...
...stayed in the hospital for five days receiving anticoagulants. It didn't put her off flying altogether, but it did make her aware of some of the unexpected hazards of air travel. "I'm fortunate to be alive," she says. "Airlines can't just bury their heads in the sand. They have a duty to inform people of the risks of flying." Full Story...
Screening for breast tumors is a bit like searching for a penny in a sandstorm. Radiologists look for specks of calcium no bigger than a grain of sand; in a certain pattern, the specks could indicate a tumor. The dense tissue of the breast, particularly in younger women, makes it difficult to isolate these spots on fixed X-ray film, so it's not surprising that doctors reading mammograms pick up only about 85% of the tumors that are there...