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This month in Odyssey.

Jan 01, 2006; ... It's almost as if the hands in this month's cover image are separated from the surgeon's body. "That's sometimes the feeling I get [watching] some of these really masterful surgeons .... They're doing such wonderful work," says the photograph's creator, Alfred Feingold, M.D. Feingold is an ...

Lara Croft: wound raider.(surgeons who play video games make less mistakes in laparoscopic surgery)

Jan 01, 2006; ... If you expect to become a surgeon someday, you'd better pay attention in science class and also play plenty of video games. Gee, zapping space aliens on Nintendo seems more like goofing off than training for a science career. Yet according to a joint study conducted by researchers at New ...

Got acne?(men who get acne are less likely to die with corornary heart disease)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006 ... Well, that's good! That's if you believe a recent British study by Bruna Galobardes (Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol) and her colleagues. The researchers claim that teenage boys who suffer from acne are one-third less likely to die from coronary heart disease ...

Got friends?(Science Scoops)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006 ... Speaking of longevity, did you know that having close friends can prolong your life? Well, now you do! Just ask Australian researcher Lynne Giles (Flinders University, Adelaide). She and her colleagues say that it's friends, not family, who are the keys to happiness and a long ...

Got brain?(brain volume and intelligence are correlated)

Jan 01, 2006 ... We all say it. When we think someone is smart, we say they have a big brain. But is there any validity to that statement? Yes! In a new study conducted by Michael McDaniel, an industrial and organizational psychologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, bigger does equal ...

Butterfly blinks to survive!(Science Scoops)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006 ... If a butterfly flaps its wings in the forest, will a bird not eat it? That depends on whether the bird sees the "whites of its eyes." Confused? Don't be. All butterflies have curious spots on their wings, known as eyespots. The function of these spots has been a bit of a ...

Dolphin spongers!(Science Scoops)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006 ... Okay, everyone knows that dolphins are intelligent and can do amazing things on command from a human. Now dolphins in Australia have been observed using tools! Michael Krutzen (University of Zurich, Switzerland) says that bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia, ...

Welcome to the OR!

Jan 01, 2006; ... Step into paper shoe covers, slip on a surgical gown, and cover your hair with a poofy cap. Then join ODYSSEY inside a modern operating room. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Closed-circuit TV cameras sometimes film surgery for training and teaching purposes. ...

What's ahead?(surgeons in operating rooms)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Expect continued developments in minimally invasive surgery. Advances in imaging technology, miniature electronics, lasers, and materials science all combine to let surgeons work with tiny incisions and sometimes no cuts at all. Often this translates into less blood loss, less scarring, ...

At the cutting edge: a day in the life of a general surgeon.(Don Conner )

Jan 01, 2006; ... Nature sketches an incredible scene at dawn as most of the residents of Littleton, CO, still lie dreaming. Dr. Don Conner picks up his 35mm camera and captures the image--the Sun's first morning rays turning the white-capped mountains on the horizon pink from the seventh floor of Littleton ...

Conquering pain: the story of anesthesia.

Jan 01, 2006; ... Just 200 years ago, if you had an aching tooth, you endured the pain until infection and rot made it intolerable. Then you paid a visit to a barber-surgeon. (Who?!) He not only cut hair and shaved beards, but also performed tooth extractions, bloodletting, and other surgeries. ...

Body shop: a look at the science of bionics.

Jan 01, 2006; ... Will bionics turn people into superheroes? The science can't yet let amputees run and jump like The Six Million Dollar Man did in the old TV series. Nor is it even close to Detective Spooner's robot-kicking abilities in the book and movie I, Robot. But bionics is making a difference in ...

Slice the cake.(mathematical recreations)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Dr. Smith, a great surgeon, is preparing a birthday cake for a friend's twin sons. The doctor knows that one prefers chocolate, while the other prefers vanilla. Smith bakes a cake in the shape of the ancient yin-yang symbol of two opposing cosmic forces, He knows that this should satisfy ...

Bloodsuckers!(leech therapy)

Jan 01, 2006; ... As Steve and Karl Behling rushed their seven-year-old daughter to a Milwaukee hospital, they never thought that an ancient remedy would worm its way into their lives. In September 2004, the lift gate of a movers' truck crushed three of Ariel Behling's toes on her right foot ....

"Knot" so easy!(suturing)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Tying a knot. It's something we do every day. Yet completing a secure surgical knot--one that won't slip, allow leakage, or damage fragile tissue--is one of a surgeon's many vital skills, because a patient's life could depend on it. Have you ever had "stitches" yourself? ...

An inside look at surgical shortcuts.(surgical technology)

Jan 01, 2006; ... My dad has a scar running from his chest down to his bellybutton, like a flat red snake. "Still as ugly as ever," he often says, describing the 35-year-old souvenir of a gall bladder operation. New School In the late 1970s, the surgeon cut Dad open to remove his ...

Einstein's knife: gripping her cutting tool, a surgeon peers over her work. Oddly, the incision she makes doesn't bleed. Instead, a strange red glow and a bit of smoke mark her progress.

Jan 01, 2006; ... Not far away, another surgeon moves an invisible beam across the surface of a tumor. Layer by layer, the diseased tissue vanishes in a puff of smoke and steam. Next door, a third surgeon reshapes an eye. Tiny pulses of invisible energy encounter the clear, rounded cornea at the ...

A very small surgical procedure: surgeons are used to working with tiny nerves and blood vessels. But imagine operating inside a single, living cell ...

Jan 01, 2006; ... THIS SURGERY WON'T TAKE LONG about a billionth of a second! That's how quickly Harvard physicist Dr. Eric Mazur's femtosecond laser can begin to vaporize a single mitochondrion inside a living cell. while leaving the rest of the cell undamaged. Welcome to the amazing world of ultrafast ...

Inner voice.

Jan 01, 2006; ... "There must be some way you can make them see reason. They can't make you live in the Dark Ages for the rest of your life." Ella snorted. "You know my parents. Wannabe hippies. Always going on about the natural way. I'm lucky that they let me get my teeth straightened." ...

What's up.(astronomical charts)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006; ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 6 p.m. (your local time) on Jan. 15. Useful all month, the chart (except for planet positions) is also accurate for 7 p.m. on Jan. 1 and 5 p.m. on Jan. 31. Sky charts were made using modified output from ...

Lonnnnnnnng winter nights.(suited for astronomical research)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006; ... The new year brings long winter nights, which means extra hours for stargazing. The stars of winter are among the brightest, which makes constellation watching exciting for people of all ages and abilities. Look toward the southeast for mighty Orion, the hunter. His starry belt ...

Planet watch.(What's Up)(Brief article)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Evening Planets: Venus (in Capricornus, moving into Sagittarius) sets about 90 minutes after the Sun. During the month, it moves toward the Sun and reappears in the morning sky. By the last days of January, look for our sister planet to rise more than 60 minutes before the Sun. ...

Watching the Aurora!(Zoom Into Astronomy)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Imagine that you're watching the weather report on TV or checking the news on the Internet, and you hear that the Sun has experienced a large solar flare. This could mean that satellite communications will be interrupted. Or, weather permitting, it also could mean that you'll be treated to ...

Cheating the seasons.(StarGazing)(Cartoon)

Jan 01, 2006; ... BY NOW, YOU'VE LEARNED THAT THE MOST PROMINENT STARS SEEN EARLY IN THE EVENING ARE CALLED THE STARS OF THE SEASON. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EACH SEASON ALSO HAS A CONSTELLATION ASSOCIATED WITH IT--LEO WITH THE SPRING, SCORPIUS WITH SUMMER, PEGASUS WITH AUTUMN, AND ORION ...

Nutritional information: rate my treat!(for chocolates)

Jan 01, 2006 ... In our February 2005 issue, "The Sweet Chemistry of Chocolate," we challenged readers to choose a selection of chocolate treats, compare their nutrition information, and (here's the hard part!) rank them according to taste with this scale: 4 = incredibly delicious 3 = truly ...

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes.(Kids' Picks)(Book review)

Jan 01, 2006; ... Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela S. Turner (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005) What do you do with a sick gorilla? No, that's not a riddle; in fact, that question helped to create an organization called the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Program ...

The inside story.(xenotransplantation)

Jan 01, 2006; ... In 1682, doctors used dog bone to mend the injured skull of a Russian nobleman. After religious leaders threatened to banish him from the church, the nobleman had the bone removed. We still struggle with scientific and moral aspects of putting parts of another species into human ...

Shure's word in your ear; IN DEMAND THIS WEEK'S 'MUST-HAVE'.

Jan 02, 2006

I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT... BROADCASTER SELECTS A FEW OF HIS FAVOURITE THINGS.

Jan 02, 2006

Holiday time, and the look is cheesy; (1) STYLE COUNSEL (2) Why do Brits abroad dress so shabbily?

Jan 02, 2006

Fisheye lenses; (1) Treat your inner Cousteau to a camcorder that will shoot cinema-quality footage - even when you're 60 metres deep (2) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Do the world's most extravagant gadgets live up to their price tags?

Jan 02, 2006

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; When she's not reeling in suitors such as Prince Andrew, Kevin Pietersen and Tony Adams, Caprice escapes into the exotic world of big game fishing.

Jan 02, 2006

bow wow; At [pounds sterling]15 million, it's the most stealthy, wealthy and unconventionally beautiful luxury ocean cruiser on the planet. But why DID they call it a Wally?

Jan 02, 2006