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...Dora Akunyili and her family were driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
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...
...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...