Word: suctioned
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...tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar, and automatic suction systems designed to remove surface water from the greens...
Naturally, there's a good measure of international payback here. For source nations, the idea of cultural property is a way to assert their sovereignty against those great powers that once picked through their treasures. It's also a defense against the suction of the present-day free market, which could easily vacuum up whatever the colonial powers haven't carted away. Zahi Hawass is the very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that...
...ball bearings, which he taped to his penis to regrow the skin in a year and a half. That was the prototype for Foreballs, which he now sells for $130 a pop. Griffiths' invention has been joined over the years by about a dozen competitors, which use tape, tension, suction, weights and straps to gently coax the skin to expand over time. Among the options are the Tug Ahoy, T-Tape, VacuTrac and, of course, the 4restore and TLC Tugger - which Low, an industrial engineer, invented in his Northbrook, Ill., basement when he lost sensitivity...
Human and animal prostheses are in dire need of a makeover. Typically, the stump of a damaged limb is simply inserted into a socket at the top of a prosthesis and held fast by a plastic sleeve or belt, or suction. The prostheses themselves might have gotten lighter and more flexible over the years, but the stumps' socket attachments have remained largely unchanged--and that's not good. It can be notoriously unstable and is prone to causing breakdown of soft tissues, as constant rubbing leads to pain and infection...
...Winter, a dolphin that lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is completely tailless as a result of an injury from a crab trap, presents a much bigger challenge. Hanger Orthopedic Group in Bethesda, Md., thinks it can help, using a sticky, gel-like material to create suction between the damaged limb and the prosthesis that will help hold it in place. The detachable tail may leave Winter too vulnerable ever to return to the wild but will allow her to swim again. What's more, the gel lubricates just enough that it helps protect against irritation. That...