Word: vessels
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...salivary gland. He was able to continue doing the show afterward but was forced to take another hiatus in June 2006, when the cancer resurfaced and part of his jawbone had to be removed. While he was still in the hospital, his reconstructed jaw collapsed and a blood vessel ruptured. Emergency surgery saved his life, but because of a breakdown of tissue surrounding the artery, he has been in a constant state of treatment and recovery ever since, which has affected his ability to speak. When he appeared at New York City's Gotham Awards last November, his wife Chaz...
...defensive motives for it as well: it was 20 years ago this month that the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes killed 290 people aboard an Iranian airliner as it flew across the Persian Gulf after the ship erroneously identified the airliner as an Iranian F-14 intent on attacking the vessel...
...Terence Conran-designed Ocean Terminal, www.oceanterminal.com. This sprawling three-story shopping mall features all the usual big-box stores but also a handful of cafés, bars and restaurants with floor-to-ceiling views onto the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk. Moored outside, the spotless vessel, with its gleaming engine room (but surprisingly modest royal apartments) is now a museum, harking back to an earlier age of travel and empire. But Leith doesn't worry too much about the past these days. It's pulling away from its gritty history and going full steam ahead...
...metaphysical serves as a powerful reminder that even the things about ourselves that we consider the most fundamental—our beliefs, our selves, and our basic conceptions of existence—are contingent facts, created by so much neurological circuitry. All it takes is a burst blood vessel in the cerebral cortex in order to completely alter our perception of reality...
...just a debilitated stroke victim, during this week of honoring personal achievement, perhaps we should all consider, at least for a moment, the extent to which the forces that push us ever-onward with seemingly infinite force are no more immutable than so many neurons, waiting for a blood vessel to burst...