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  1. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    I tell Mark I'm glad to see some cup holders were left in place. I recognize the brief, polite silence that follows. It's Mark Roman rendered mute by the fullness of my ignorance. They're rifle holders.
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  2. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Three hundred feet down, seawater slams through a two-inch hole with enough force to bend a knee the way knees don't bend.
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  3. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    I came across a NATO symposium on Human Performance Optimization that included a roundup of medical technologies that might be repurposed to optimize warfighters. In among the prosthetic limbs "to provide superhuman strength" and the infrared and ultraviolet vision–bestowing eye implants was this: corpus callosotomy to "allow unihemispheric sleep and continuous alertness.
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  4. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    What can be done for these men? A lot. The art of phalloplasty-crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient's body-has come a long way {thanks in no small part to the transgender community}.
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  5. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Medicare reimbursement code for maggots: CPT 99070.
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  6. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Irritable bowel syndrome is a well-documented, little-publicized aftermath of diarrheal infections-especially severe or repeated bouts. If you talk to people who've recently been diagnosed with IBS, about a third of them will say that their symptoms began after a bad attack of food poisoning. Defense Department databases reveal a five-fold higher risk of IBS among men and women who suffered an acute diarrheal infection while deployed in the Middle East.
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    phalloplasty-crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient's body-has
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  8. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you. In a
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  9. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    For the forces of any given blast, one type may stretch, say, a fifth of its length without tearing, while another may manage just 5 percent. WIAMan will be calibrated to reflect these differences and predict the consequences.
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  10. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life. ___________
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  11. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you.
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  12. Mary Roach _ Grunt: The Curious Science of

    I am not, by trade or character, a spotlight operator. I'm the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I've found it. Courage
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