Word: remnants
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...sado-masochistic mehod is a remnant of the do-it-yourself craze. The masochist uses small earrings with a spring which can be adjusted to vary the amount of pressure on the ear. By clipping on these earrings and adjusting the springs, the masochist can pierce her own ears at her own rate of speed. A problem may arise, however, if the earrings are knocked awry during sleep; a piercee might awaken to find that the holes in her two ears don't match...
Stomach surgery has developed in a broken-gaited fashion, with surgeons periodically going back to and modifying old techniques. Physicians realized in the 1880s that man can get along, after a fashion, with only a remnant of his stomach. German-born Surgeon Theodor Billroth then decided it was possible to cut out the lower stomach and pylorus and join what was left of the stomach to the duodenum (see top diagram). After this "subtotal gastrectomy," or "Billroth I," came a still more daring invention, "hemigastrectomy," or "Billroth II": cutting out about half of the stomach and hitching up what...
...VERY SMALL REMNANT (232 pp.)-Michael Straight-Knopf...
...Very Small Remnant, as in his first novel, Carrington, Straight mines and mourns U.S. behavior to the Indians during the often bloody westward expansion at the close of the Civil War, Carrington was a small masterpiece; Remnant is not so successful, but its heroes are the same: those few white men who had the courage to risk unpopularity to deal honestly with...
Once again, gunmen were at work in the streets of Paris, and Frenchmen huddled anxiously to speculate on the next moves of that ugly remnant of Algerian hatred, the Secret Army Organization. Each day's headlines brought some new reason for fear...