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...about real surgery: The skin incision is the easiest part. Human skin cuts about like a pork chop (or a Fruit Roll-Up, if you're a vegetarian); a scalpel is usually no sharper than a good kitchen knife. Knowing where and how deep to cut is also super-basic to the practice of surgery, about like starting the engine is to the practice of driving. The skin is (unless you're a plastic surgeon) ultimately just another thing standing in the way of what you really want to get at - that joint, tendon or organ you're there...
...Shrek.” Or “Toy Story.” Or even 2000’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” To be blunt, “Fred Claus” simply lacks creativity. Sure, the basic concept differs from most. Fred Claus, played by Vince Vaughn, is the estranged brother of the more famous, more rotund Santa Claus. As a boy, Fred chose to move away from the family’s North Pole nest to escape feeling outshined by his sib. So he takes a job as a repo...
...plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth’s future—acid rain and global warming. Kurt Z. House, a research assistant in earth and planetary sciences, proposed a process known as electrochemical weathering, which increases the alkalinity—or basic pH level—of the Earth’s oceans to reduce the damage caused by acid rain and decrease carbon levels in the atmosphere. The natural ability of oceans to remove carbon from the air has suffered due to pollution-induced acid rain. House hopes to increase the waters?...
Schumer praises Mukasey’s “fidelity to the rule of law” as paramount among the reasons he endorsed him. Yet the purpose of the Justice Department is to enforce the law. Respect for the law is surely a basic requirement for any nominee for the highest law enforcement post in the land, not a reason to heap on the accolades...
...paperwork and $2,500 check to enter into the South Carolina Democratic Primary, but the serious-minded state Democratic Party refused to certify him, rejecting his application by a vote of 13-3. Party Chairwoman Carol X. Fowler told the New York Times that Colbert failed to meet the basic requirements “that the person be generally acknowledged or recognized by the media as a viable nationwide candidate; and be actively campaigning for the South Carolina primary...