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...long robotic arms. The metallic limbs will enter the patient's body through the narrow gaps between the ribs, cutting holes no bigger than a nickel--a far cry from the usual 6-in. to 8-in. incisions sawed straight through the breastbone. Besides eliminating a can't-miss scar, the robotic approach promises to reduce the trauma to the body, speed recovery and minimize the risk of infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forceps! Scalpel! Robot! | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...specialists are getting involved and also have doubts about the efficacy of some fad treatments. "A lot of these non-invasive techniques become fashionable, but it's a slightly dodgy market," says David Sharpe, a surgeon in Bradford, England. Some fills, he notes, can cause lumps, and lasers can scar if misused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nip and Tuck Trade | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Styron was motivated by his Southern upbringing to write the novel; “segregation left a scar on [his] psyche.” He feels a distinct connection to the era of American slavery, because his own grandmother owned two slaves at the time of emancipation...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Confessions of William Styron | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what I will say if I meet him," she says, pulling the hem of her pink leather skirt down her thighs. "But I think I will say: 'Hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Angels | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...case in which testimony recounts guys named Puffy, Shyne and Wolf crossing paths with a guy named Scar is sure to have some fascinating moments. Last Friday's denouement, in which a New York Supreme Court jury declared SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS not guilty on weapons-possession and bribery charges stemming from a nightclub incident in which three people were shot, didn't disappoint. The Puffy-partisan courtroom exhaled a collective sigh of relief, Johnnie Cochran hugged his second most famous client, and Puffy's mother JANICE, who had brought him brown-bag lunches throughout the seven-week trial, thanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 2001 | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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