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...just another routine case," says Dr. Mahlon Johnson. In 1992, as the Vanderbilt University neuropathologist was removing the brain of a man who had died of AIDS, his hand suddenly slipped. The bloody scalpel sliced through his glove and deep into his left thumb. Because of that "freaky little slip of the scalpel," as Johnson ruefully characterizes it, he endured seven "nerve-racking" months. He took several HIV tests--all were negative. Then the result that he had been dreading came in: he was HIV positive...
...Crimson's top scorer injured his right thumb in the game against the Minutemen. Although he attempted to play on Saturday night against Boston College. Zimmerman lasted only a few minutes as his thumb was severly swollen. He is expected to undergo tests today, but currently his status remains...
...friend,"someone who tells you whom you can hang out with, what you can do and not do." Even if the elder Fayed had ordered his son to squire the princess around, the younger Fayed saw the rebel royal as a way out from under his father's thumb. "Dodi," says his friend, "started finding his legs." And on that Saturday night, it seemed as if an engagement was almost certain, even though, as the French police now say, the fabled Repossi diamond ring was never found in the car or on Diana's finger. For the princess apparently...
...thousand acres so long and so well that his stature within his Iowa community is almost monarchical. "No one within 50 miles ever made any decision without consulting Daddy," says his oldest daughter Ginny (Jessica Lange), a modest and irresolute woman who has always lived under her father's thumb; at age 36, she still walks the half-mile to his house every morning so his breakfast is ready...
...profane tiremakers and pundits with pitchforks. Covering the campaign for the New Republic, journalist Michael Lewis was smart enough to leave the pack and take that yellow brick road, turning in dispatches that were fresh, hilarious must-reads. The same is true for Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House (Knopf; 299 pages; $25), a compilation of those reports...