Word: scalped
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Purdy said he began to offer massage in 1996, when a hairdresser named Danny asked if he could offer scalp massages at a sister business on Church Street...
...back, Shane calls him BBC ("Brilliant But Creepy"). I was nervous, but I don't think the boys noticed. "Can't bat, can't bowl," I said to Freddie Flintoff when he was on nought. It did the trick. Flintoff was caught in the deep for 72. My first scalp. "Don't try and spin it so much," I told Warney at drinks. He'd never thought of that. Thirteen wickets to Shane for the Test. We'd won by an innings and 50 runs. I still hate Perth...
Many a song has been written about Hank Williams, but this is the first in which he plays a bar in drag and his mascara runs. Williams' fans should give a close listen before they shout for Keen's scalp; his mix of irony, folk and honky-tonk is a tribute to Hank's influence...
Self-examination for signs of skin cancer is simple, requiring little more than a full-length mirror, a hand mirror to see one's back and a blow-dryer to examine the scalp. "The ability of people to detect skin cancers is tremendous if they're motivated," observes Dr. Robert Friedman of N.Y.U. Indeed, many newly motivated Americans went scurrying to dermatologists last week, just as Reagan's colon cancer sent them to gastroenterologists. "We had five patients walk in off the streets who identified their own basal-cell carcinomas," says Friedman. "Four of them were right." --By Claudia Wallis...
...patients were given careful medical attention, including drugs to reduce the risk of blood clots and control high blood pressure, which is frequently a contributing factor in stroke. Roughly half the participants were randomly assigned to undergo bypass surgery to connect the superficial temporal artery, which nourishes the scalp, to an artery on the surface of the brain. (The scalp has an ample supply of blood from other vessels.) The central question posed by the investigators: Would the surgery reduce the incidence of future strokes and stroke-related deaths? Their conclusion: "The answer is no." In fact, the operation...