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Last November, at the age of 43, Carol Beebe lost her left breast to cancer. But when she awoke from mastectomy surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center and gazed down at her chest, nothing appeared to be missing. Beebe, an IBM employee from Point Pleasant, N.J., had chosen to have a reconstruction of her breast immediately following the mastectomy. In a single operation, plastic surgeons shaped a new breast from Beebe's own abdominal tissue, moving it into place minutes after the general surgeons had removed the diseased breast. The technique spares the patient the anguish...
...majority of reconstructions are done with implants, small bags that are inserted under the muscle of the chest wall and filled with either silicone gel or saline solution. The inflation must be done gradually over a period of weeks to allow time for the muscle and skin to stretch, a process that can cause discomfort and sometimes lead to infections...
...would anyone want to call him that? Just because he wears #23 Just because his tongue dangles somewhere around his chest region during double-pump, 180-degree, Air Jordan slams like the one he pulled off against Harvard...
...Connecticut man has been convicted of murder. The man argues in his defense that the police made an illegal search of his "home" -- the cardboard boxes he used as a chest of drawers as he sheltered beneath a highway overpass -- in order to get their evidence. Does the Fourth Amendment protect cardboard boxes? What is the legal definition of home? What confers the sanctity of home? A lease or a deed? Four walls? How thick or thin? Must home have doors and locks...
...bouncers, who is off-duty tonight, tells of his initiation into Bow folklore. "I had to meet all the regulars. One of them was a guy named "Rick the Biker," with a beard down to his chest and tattoos everywhere...