It actually destroys the tumor, and then the body will naturally re-absorb it over a period of time.

The ice actually reaches a lethal temperature and we remove our probe, and the body over a period of months will then absorb the tissue that has been destroyed by the ice. It's sort of a natural way of getting rid of this.

It's something that's been around a few years, but it's new to the state of Massachusetts.

Alcohol on the skin will dry skin out. It does the same thing on the inside of the body.

Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there'd be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town, and digging holes to serve as traps, and training with the few weapons they had. There'd be a wiping of perspiration and drinks raised to one another and the exchange of friendly smiles between comrades, and perhaps deeper, more meaningful glances between him and MaryAnn.

But by midmorning of the first day, Cole had come to the unavoidable conclusion that the remainder of the experience would in fact drag on in exceedingly real time, with lots of heaving and hoing and digging and hauling under the hot sun, full of the kind of intense straining that raised the danger of a really spectacular hernia. And, judging from the few tense conversations he'd had so far, he foresaw a series of increasingly strident arguments with Nora regarding matters strategic. Plus, of course, at the end of all this effort they'd all probably be dead.

I think that given time the entire state will go smoke free. I think it's just a matter of time.