Word: scalpeled
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...conversation a little bit. For example, maybe switch your topic of conversation from the sheep brains you dissected in biology class to the fact that you like the way she laughs. My guess is it would be hard to find an opportunity to lock lips during a scalpel-filled tête-à-tête...
...bizarre. And yet for the past few years, surgeons at a handful of medical centers in the U.S. and Europe have been cautiously preparing for just such a procedure to offer hope to patients who have been severely disfigured by burns or accidents. No one had yet raised a scalpel to try, in part because of numerous medical, ethical and psychological concerns that had to be considered first. That's one reason it was so startling to learn last week that the first face transplant--albeit a partial one--has taken place. Doctors in France reported that they took...
Every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy has preferred, whenever possible, to use the scalpel of a Special Forces operation rather than the blunter tools of conventional warfare. The Reagan Administration has given top priority to building up Special Forces, increasing their budget from $441 million in 1982 to $1.2 billion this year, and the number of troops from 11,000 to nearly 15,000. At the very least, the Administration has rescued special operations from the post-Viet Nam era of neglect, which was so ignominiously exposed in the wreckage of Desert One during the failed Iranian hostage rescue...
...from a newspaper. Its grotesque contents: part of the woman's genitalia. On the morning the bodies were discovered, a copper-jacketed Winchester bullet was found in front of a hospital near the murder site. The proximity of the bullet, and the possibility that surgical gloves and a scalpel were used in the killing, led police to question the hospital staff. No one was charged, though...
Within a week, Fourtou secured a credit line of $994 million, enough to stave off default but not enough to keep the firm running smoothly for long. A few weeks later, he borrowed $1.96 billion more. Then Fourtou took out his scalpel and started to operate. "It was a matter of survival," he tells TIME. "I had to survive the first days, then the first weeks." Even though Moody's did downgrade Vivendi, Fourtou has pulled the company through...