Word: massed
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...took 15 hours and involved details that sound more like makeshift engineering than surgery. First, doctors removed the remains of Kadriu's damaged eye and retrieved its surrounding membrane, which was reinserted after being filled with a piece of fat from Kadriu's buttock to create an eye-shaped mass with the remaining ocular muscles attached to it. It will later form a mobile platform for a false eye resembling a giant contact lens. Doctors then re-created an upper eyelid using cartilage from the back of an ear and a lower eyelid with skin from the forehead. Next, doctors...
...genes, since they are often camouflaged by normal ones. Last month Dr. Bert Vogelstein and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md., reported in the journal Nature that they have figured out how to unmask the defective genes. Meanwhile, researchers at Exact Laboratories in Maynard, Mass., have developed a simple stool test that will alert your doctor to any dangerous genetic changes in your colon. The test costs $250 and may become more widely available by the end of the year...
...recent Thursday afternoon, Wise left behind his twins, his "companion animals" and his wife and law partner Debi in their colonial house in Needham, Mass., and drove to begin work as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching the rights of animals. What's necessary, Wise thinks, is to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the human place, and animals' place, in nature. If--hypothetically--a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protections...
...Internet's most successful and best-known incubators tend to be American. CMGI Inc. of Andover, Mass., Guy Kawasaki's Garage.com in Palo Alto, Calif., and Bill Gross's Idealab.com in Pasadena, Calif., have fostered more than 150 Net start-ups in all, hitting pay dirt when their young charges go public. CMGI, which has partnered in Asia with Hong Kong businessman Richard Li's Pacific Century group, has been called the Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet. CMGI currently boasts a market capitalization of about $26 billion...
Today drinkers at trendy bars from Manhattan to Mayfair pay as much as $40 for a tall shot, or caballito, of Porfidio Barrique, and buyers snap up Herradura's $230-a-bottle Seleccion Suprema. Even mass-market leader Jose Cuervo now offers a $1,000 bottle of limited edition 1800 Coleccion. It's all part of the trend toward boutique liquors that began in Europe and the U.S. in the late 1980s, says Chris Morris, national marketing director for American distiller Brown-Forman's two tequila brands, Pepe Lopez and the newly introduced Don Eduardo. "When single-malt whiskeys burst...