Word: vein
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...Five days earlier Gibson had taken an 11-hour trip back to Britain from a holiday in New Orleans. Based on this information, hospital staff quickly diagnosed a pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal lung complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - blood clots in the veins - a condition that is often prompted by prolonged periods of immobility. Some experts believe DVT can affect as many as one in 20 aircraft passengers. Gibson stayed in the hospital for five days receiving anticoagulants. It didn't put her off flying altogether, but it did make her aware of some of the unexpected hazards...
...campaign, but "she's never worked in a White House," says a friend. "She couldn't pass this opportunity up." The decision hasn't sat well with her equally partisan husband, James Carville. With two kids under six, her job means more Mr. Mom duties for the vein-popping Cajun who helped elect Bill Clinton in 1992. It also means a serious drop in family income. Carville and Matalin's mix of celebrity, romance and adversarial politics has been a lucrative formula--joint speeches, talk-show gigs--since their public courtship during the '92 campaign...
...Scotland Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, a tiny, staring child lies dying. She is three and has hardly known a day of good health. Now her skin wrinkles around her body like an oversize suit, and her twig-size bones can barely hold her vertical as nurses search for a vein to take blood. In the frail arms hooked up to transfusion tubes, her veins have collapsed. The nurses palpate a threadlike vessel on the child's forehead. She mews like a wounded animal as one tightens a rubber band around her head to raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from...
...same vein, an L.A.-based company offered a documentary series about prostitutes, coyly titled "Ladies of the Night" (though the promotional poster makes them look like convent girls) while an Australian firm weighed in with "Single Girls," a reality series from Australia in which four successful career girls go on the prowl for four Mr. Rights from a luxury penthouse helpfully provided by the TV production company...
Never far beneath all the gentlemanly back-patting and hand-shaking, a deep vein of hostility surfaced on the first afternoon of John Ashcroft's confirmation hearing...