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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...