Word: tubefuls
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...head is visible above the black head support, which resembles a boxer's headgear. Below that, a portion of his shoulders shows above the metal ventilator box, which looks like a robot's backpack and is carried behind the chair on a metal shelf. The translucent tracheostomy tube (trach) leads from the box to the slit in his trachea below his Adam's apple. When he speaks, he must catch the ventilator on the outward breath, finish one sentence and get at least a word into the following sentence to signal his listener that he has something more...
...formed in there. So it's a little scary. And the down side is that once the trach is changed, it takes a number of days for it to settle into position so that you can talk effectively. So the first couple of days, the slightest movement of the tube will cause the trach to get out of position, and you don't have any voice...
...once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could wipe out a city. And no one, to my knowledge, has ever cuddled up to a stuffed microbe...
LOUISE BROWN, 18; WHITCHURCH, ENGLAND; world's first test-tube baby...
...consider what Mr. Clinton has most visibly been doing all year: meeting with parents to deplore gratuitous sex and violence on television; pressuring Big Media into accepting a ratings system and a V-chip technology to let parents control what their kids can see on the tube; embracing school uniforms and curfews; plunging into tobacco row with a machete to stop cigarette companies from luring the young with Joe Camel and the Marlboro...