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...Also, she reportedly slept with U.S. radio shock jock Howard Stern and that's just gross. The Japanese doll, Mai, looks a bit too schoolgirlish with her pigtails. I decide on Stacy. Sure, with her 58-cm (23-in) waist, 95-cm (36-in) size C breasts and taut stomach, she's a babe. But don't hate her because she's beautiful. Since my mom is kind of conservative, the black mini-dress, size zero (women don't like women who wear size zero) would have to go before I took her home. But she has a gleam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...outside, the patient's stomach is smeared in yellowy iodine and puffed out from the CO2 pumped in to provide some elbow room. Five "ports" are cut through his side, allowing surgeons to slip mechanical tools into his body. On the inside, it's an unrecognizable mess of viscera, shiny pink surfaces and gloopy fat. Across the room, lead surgeon Barry Gardiner sits at a console with his head pressed into a 3D viewfinder. His fingers, looped into what look like castanets, dart about just above his lap. But the action is taking place inside the patient, where metal robot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Little Helper | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...esophagus. Traditional surgery involves an incision from the throat down to the belly button. "It's a very violent operation," says cardiothoracic surgeon Murali Dharan, making a digging motion with his hands. With the da Vinci, Dharan was able to remove Tichtchenko's cancerous esophagus and move her stomach up much higher - to allow her to feed herself minus her swallowing mechanism - through small incisions in her neck. "I'd watched E.R. on TV at home, but I never imagined how fully I'd get to be involved," she says, over lunch three weeks after her operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Little Helper | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...pretentious enough for the Signet. I don’t own any smoking jackets or sweater vests.” But the more I seethed, carped and whined, the more that gnawing, paralyzing tightness began to sink into my stomach. I heard the voice that drives many a Harvard student, the voice that kicks you when you’re down: “You’re not good enough...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Self-Righteous Rejection | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...lower the risk of developing cancer to begin with. Here the most exciting work centers on the cycooxygenase inhibitor called COX-2. This pain reliever was originally developed to clamp down on inflammation as aspirin does but without aspirin's tendency to eat through the lining of the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope For Cancer | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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