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...lead to a reduction of hostilities? But on one thing, everyone seemed agreed. The images, the symbolism, the semiotics of Saddam?s capture were freighted with significance. The fetid hole in the ground, the mud hut, the litter and underwear, the prophet?s beard, the unfired pistol, the tongue depressor - all, somehow, were symbolic of ... well, of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Semiotics of Saddam | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...method is disarmingly simple. Doctors spread a thin layer of the ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Shoulder for a Burn Cure | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...NAME OF the game is changing faster than you can say "ahhh," and no mean tongue depressor is going to hold back the course of history. Every facet of the medical world is undergoing rapid transformation. And smack in the middle of this revolution and its concomittant crisis is the state of Massachusetts...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Practicing Politics | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

Mondale spoke about the poor and jobless, and Bush, in pitch with a widespread mood, called him "the Great Depressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Polls at Last | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...little chiffon number he bought in Seoul. Frank will fritter and whine and cluck like a chicken. B.J. will keep trying to prove he is not the most decent soul south of the 38th parallel. Winchester will open another picnic basket from Mater and savor caviar on a tongue depressor. Father Mulcahy will smile and sigh. Trapper will somehow keep his balance on that second-banana peel. Hot Lips will practice her yoga and do her nails. Henry will accidentally impale himself on a hypodermic needle. Hawkeye will wonder at the insanity of it all, and wonder too whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: M*A*S*H, You Were a Smash | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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