Word: scalped
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...always aimed at mind and heart: many Iraqis viewed America as magically powerful, which raised their hopes and, in some cases, broke their will to resist. One U.S. soldier, when raiding a house in search of weapons, would aim his cheap key-ring flashlight at the scalp of a suspect, then scan from head to toe before flashing the light onto his wristwatch and humming softly. The Iraqi, perhaps convinced that his thoughts and secrets had been electronically captured in a Casio, would often confess...
Although he has discarded his $10,000 hairpiece because the glue that attached it to his scalp kept peeling off and he still puffs Marlboros, Dan is on a roll. Some of the people around him feel run over, however, as he readily acknowledges. "People are sensitive to my changing," he says. Chief among them is his daughter Bonnie, 11, who thought of her old dad as a cuddly teddy bear and somehow doesn't trust his new svelte form and game-show-host good looks. Nor does she understand how she fits into her father's new romantic life...
Samuel Khumalo's dreadlocks once reached down to his chest. All that remains of them now are prickly halos of hair that surround several centimeters of split, swollen scalp. The 40-year-old postal clerk and member of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions was among the first to arrive last month outside the governor's office in downtown Bulawayo for a peaceful protest against Zimbabwe's high taxes and cost of living. Several dozen demonstrators had barely begun to gather when police charged the crowd. Khumalo received two cracks to the head before police officers dragged...
THAT the pummelings left him reliant on 11 prescription medicines for vertigo, mood disorders and "scalp tenderness." (The complaint does not note how many drugs both of them may have been on when he decided to enter the marriage...
After five years of thinking about having the procedure done, Cox, who originally found it impossible to talk about her hair loss, showed up in Reed's office. Her surgery took four hours. "It was not painful at all," says Cox. "Afterward, my scalp was a little sore in some places." Three or four months later, she had an inch of brown hair growing where there had been none. Though her wallet was a bit sore too--the procedure cost $5,000--Cox enthuses, "I feel my appearance reflects my age and my vitality, where before I was unhappy with...