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Getting stuck with a needle is bad. Feeling like a pincushion while a medic looks for a vein is worse. Thanks to OnTarget, a so-called vein-contrast-enhancement device, doctors will soon be able to navigate your veins with a virtual map. Using a near-infrared camera, OnTarget takes a real-time video image of blood and projects it onto the skin--blood appears dark, and fat and tissue look light--highlighting placement of veins within...
...vein of Main Street, Winesburg, Ohio explores the frustrations and loneliness of people living in a small town at the turn of the twentieth century; a typical character, married to the wrong man, cries: “I wanted to run away from everything, but I wanted to run towards something...
...same vein is sound therapy. The CD “Sound Techniques for Relieving Depression,” available for $12.95 at brain.com, claims to restore feelings of happiness with visualization exercises and “expertly engineered theta frequencies...
...this vein that we reiterate our opposition to the Curricular Review committee’s recommendation that first-year entryways be affiliated with residential houses. The committee’s primary motivation in making this recommendation is that “students also receive a great deal of advice from one another, particularly from older students who can tell them about the experience of being in particular courses or concentrations.” Continuing to strengthen the Prefect Program, with the aim of someday converting it into a system of upperclass residential advisors, will accomplish this goal and preserve...
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...