Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Nine out of ten patients who survive organ transplantation get skin cancer.
If you're an overweight teenager, you probably want to get raped for the attention. But you don't want to joke about it on Fox News.
The strange-looking Cantor's softshelled turtle spends 95% of its life motionless under the sand, surfacing just twice a day to take a single enormous breath. But:
When its tiny eyes, protruding from the top of its head among the grains of sand, spot a shrimp or a fish or a crab, the turtle shoots its neck out the way a chameleon shoots out its tongue.
"It strikes faster than a snake," Mr. Emmett said. "I have seen cobras striking, and this is easily the same speed. And it has the hardest bite of any animal known to man."
Zealous representation. Not necessarily what she believes, but what her client has a right to have the jury asked to consider, whatever the barrister thinks of that way of thinking. If the barrister has a reasonable belief that juries, or some members of them, think this way, which she well might even if, or especially if, she despises such thought, than that's what she'll argue.
Posted by: I don't pay at May 18, 2007 03:50 PMDid you see the "weight-loss" ad at the bottom of that article?
Wow.
Posted by: cheerylilgoth at May 18, 2007 03:56 PMAgreed: Holy crap. I didn't know turtles could be as big as a sofa.
Posted by: Gaijin Biker at May 21, 2007 07:53 PMOrgan transplantation... skin cancer.
Not having read the article, my guess is that organ transplantees are put on immunosuppressants such as cyclosporin A. Skin cancers are especially visible to the immune system, and immune surveillance of melanomas is strongly correlated with patient survival.
So in a nutshell, be good to your immune systems, people.
Posted by: Jon at May 23, 2007 09:10 PM