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...wrists feel naked. Can you look in my bedroom closet for my nautical shrink-to-fit rope bracelet...
...there, from the Manhattan skyline to Woody driveling anxiety to his shrink, the first moments of Antz suggest a film destined to become another prototypical Woody Allen movie. Or so it seems until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." Hardly the accustomed venue for paranoid melodrama, the computer generated image of a million humanoid ants carrying around gargantuan dirt clods seems to belong more to a Charleton Heston flick than to a movie whose hero is characterized by unrelenting nervousness...
...just Republicans who are attempting to shrink a woman's right to choose. Even some "progressives" compromise about choice, favoring limits on some procedures and not others. If a woman is the best person to decide whether or not to undergo an important medical procedure, then the best person to decide whether or not to undergo an important medical procedure is a woman...
...lots of different feedback loops that generally keep it from making too much of any one compound. If testosterone levels stay high for a long time, a chemical switch in the brain is tripped that signals the testes to stop making the hormone. That can cause them to shrink and may make it difficult for users to produce their own testosterone naturally. As if that weren't enough, excess testosterone can accelerate the growth of prostate tumors that might otherwise have taken years to form...
...that's worth a lot. The median resale price of homes rose 6% in the past year, up to $330,000 in San Francisco and $121,000 in Charleston, S.C. A new appraisal may enable you to stop paying mortgage insurance or secure a home-equity loan to shrink credit-card debt...