Word: hernias
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Last week I said that Tony La Russa would have a hernia by August...
...does one learn a language in which one parks in a driveway, and drive on a parkway?" he asked. "A man gets a hernia, while a woman gets a hysterectomy...
Spirit rejuvenated, Raffi, 43, is experiencing the indignities of middle age. He suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, a hernia, bursitis and high cholesterol. To cleanse his system of impurities, he eats only brown rice and fruit. For the hernia, he sleeps with a magnet on his stomach...
That era may take a while to unfold, however. For now, the procedure seems useful only for rare ailments. Blake Schultz's diaphragmatic hernia, for example, occurs in 1 out of every 2,200 births, and 90% of those cases are considered unsuitable for surgery. Moreover, while Harrison has proved that this operation is feasible, only long-term clinical trials can establish that the surgery will be effective for a majority of patients...
...discontented about is contentedness. Suddenly Barbara can't stand the way Oliver chews his food. Or his insistence on correcting the details when she tries to tell dinner-party stories. When he suffers what at first looks like a heart attack -- it turns out to be a hiatal hernia -- she cannot quite make it to the emergency room to fake anxiety and sympathy. That night, she proposes separation...