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...girls will have no problem wearing bikinis. The scar will not be seen." Joan Thong, Singaporean doctor who led the operating team that separated four-month-old conjoined twins from Korea...
...first three books about a schoolboy wizard named Harry Potter, who knew something about fighting fierce, deadly enemies. Maybe that's why, when they took the train from their home in upstate New York to New York City for treatment, Catie wore a red cape, red lightning-shaped scar on her forehead, a wand and big black glasses. She was ready for anything...
Americans remember World War II as "the good war," the one fought with stoic heroism by "the greatest generation." For Europeans, it is a scar that won't stop itching, a remembrance of pain and disgrace. Even for those people whose nations were on the winning side, sadness and horror intrude into memories of glory. Novelists can capture the mixed emotions that go with war better than historians. It's no accident that Ian McEwan's Atonement--perhaps the most admired British novel of the past decade--has at its center the retreat of British forces to Dunkirk, a story...
...futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest]. But now, if you give up your life, you give up a chance to do something." That was also Palach's view, once he realized he was going to die. His original intention had been merely to scar himself. Some three hours before he passed away, Palach left a schoolmate with the following message: "My deed has fulfilled its purpose. But let no one else do it." Thirty-four years later, the communism he hated is gone, but Palach's wishes are still being defied...
...good. But the scan also spots a lot of things that are not lung cancer. "In up to half of patients screened, the scan will show some lung scar or shadow that will require further evaluation or surgical biopsy, even though it will ultimately be deemed to be harmless," says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The best candidates for the scan, therefore, are those who already have the highest risk--and the most to gain...