On Saturday , I had dinner and drinks at Kumiko 's house with her two friends visiting . We had these things called turban snails , otherwise known as sea snails . They 're the kind with the spiral - shaped , thick , generally rough shells . It was my first time having them , although not my first time seeing them .

A: What type of food did the narrator eat ?

It was awful to think that there had been 4 planes hijacked that day , and how it could get much , much worse . Later that night when I got home , I was glued to the TV .... watching in horror as the Twin Towers came down and all the rescue workers and other people who were trapped in the buildings as they fell . It all seemed so surreal . So , so sad . At that time they thought there may have been 50,000 people in the building , and so many people were missing .

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From Today in Science History : Anna Botsford Comstock ( Died 24 Aug 1930 ; born 1 Sep 1854 ) . ( nee Anna Botsford ) American illustrator , writer , and educator remembered for her work in nature study . Pliny the Elder ( Died 24 Aug 79 A.D. ; born 23 A.D. ) . Roman savant and author of the celebrated Natural History , in 37 volumes an encyclopaedic work of very uneven accuracy that was nonetheless an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages . He prepared this as a digest of two thousand ancient books written by nearly five hundred writers .

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I dearly hope that is an option as soon as possible after surgery and yes , right now I believe I can , but . Doing something in a pool , in water , requires me to be in a bathing suit in front of other people . This is n't sarcasm , this is fear .

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What did the doctor perfrorm ?