Word: wonderful
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...pains we take seeking alterations in our physical appearance are a constant source of wonder. But it's not just the plastic surgeons who help the cosmetically challenged. Any M.D. can legally shoot you with Botox or a body-hair laser. Urologists and gynecologists nip and tuck at the naughty bits of both sexes. Today any doc can turn a pretty dollar getting hair to grow, pounds to melt off or aging private parts to work like new. None of this has much to do with relieving the suffering of the sick and disabled...
...very bad days of his youth. It's not what he did, though, that most disgusts him. It's what he was. "The thing that causes me to wince most is when I remember all the really bad stuff we did that I laughed at," he says. "You wonder how anyone with a soul could do that...
...have excavated only the clay floors and hearths from six of the houses and two nearby structures that, fringed with timber palisades, may have been chiefs' homes or shrines. The six houses are strewn with animal bones and broken pottery--so many signs of feasting and ceremony that archaeologists wonder whether the site was used for funerary practices before remains were deposited at Stonehenge. Says Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology: "For the very first time, it's creating a social world into which we can place Stonehenge...
...though her name has been floated as a possible nominee to the Supreme Court, some wonder whether the presidency of Harvard may instead be in Kagan’s future...
...underscores the reason that Japan's faith in a more prosperous future has been shaken. "Yubari citizens are filled with anxiety about the future, and so are a lot of Japanese people," says Sasaya, the snow piling outside his small shop in Yubari's shuttered downtown. "It makes me wonder where Japan is headed." The answer could lie in another Newtonian law: what goes up, must come down...