Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...THUMBS UP Wouldn't it be great if you could grow your own body parts? Well, an experiment begun three years ago to do just that has proved a resounding success. After a Massachusetts machinist lost part of his thumb in an industrial accident, bone cells were taken from his forearm, placed on a thumb-shaped scaffolding made of coral and implanted on the digit. Now the coral is dissolving, new bone tissue is growing and the patient is able to write, grasp and otherwise carry on with normal activities...
...chef at the glamorous River Cafe, he had the garlic to ask the owner for a piece of the place. "I felt I was an integral part of the River Cafe, and I wanted it to be my restaurant as well as the owner's," he says, jabbing a thumb toward his chest. "I got shot down." So then Palmer went out on his own--determined to treat his staff differently...
...front-page positioning to review movies that fewer people will see in theaters than tune into an average episode of "Two Guys and a Girl." Meanwhile, we TV folk duke it out for space with the bridge column. A TV critic, no mater how witty, fat and proficient of thumb, will never become a syndicated celebrity. And above all, every May, film critics jet off to Cannes to sample the year's coming wares on the shores of the French Riviera...
...mobile phone. Some are chatting with pals. Look closely, though, and you will see that many others are text messaging their friends, checking up on who's making out with whom, which clubs are hot tonight; constantly punching the numeric keypad as if to prove that the opposable thumb is what distinguishes humans from lesser primates...
...when the Crimson found itself shorthanded after Anne Goldsberry broke her thumb and both Arianne Cohen and freshman Liz Anderson contracted mononucleosis, it turned to its former teammates, who came to the rescue and performed admirably throughout the tournament...