Word: worn
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...sent me two-pound cartons of Swedish fish monthly, and though I was initially possessive with the gummies, soon my entire suite was chewing on the darling little minnows--breakfast, lunch and dinner. I should have seen the cavity coming, as the enamel on my back molars had clearly worn thin: I could no longer deal with food at extreme temperatures and everything had to be served at room temp. I was bad to the bone...
...easy. But now, as if in a sci-fi flick, doctors have developed a tiny camera in a capsule that patients swallow and send on a painless info-gathering voyage through the gut. As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer. Downside? Doctors can't maneuver the capsule to get a closer look. And FDA approval isn't expected for years...
...pacemaker or implantable defibrillator in your chest? Then be wary of therapeutic magnets used to relieve arthritis and muscle aches. A report shows that those popular mattress pads containing magnets can interfere with--and sometimes deactivate--implantable heart-rhythm regulators. You're probably safe with smaller magnetic gear worn on the wrist or foot, as long as it's kept at least 6 in. from your shoulder. That's where the circuitry for the heart devices is housed...
...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...
...annual interest rate of 456%. If she missed a payment, she says, she would owe an additional $30. "By the end of the month," she says, "I would have no money." Finally, a distressed Rowings, who had always believed in paying her debts but was worn down by the endless dunning calls from bill collectors day and night, decided there was never going to be an end. She filed for bankruptcy. "It was humiliating," she says. "I wished I had never stopped teaching full time...