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• n  the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
• n  the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
• n  the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
• n  a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
• n  a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

• El Salvadoran colon
• Costa Rican colon
• Colon
• Aspinwall

News & Articles

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• Colon wins 7th straight as A's top Mariners
  Yoenis Cespedes hit a pair of two-run homers and Bartolo Colon won his seventh straight start to lead the Oakland Athletics past the Seattle Mariners 6-3 on Friday night.
  June 22, 2013 - ESPN
• Colon cancer screening tied to better outcomes
  By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are diagnosed with colon cancer after routine colonoscopies tend to have better outcomes and less advanced cancers than people diagnosed based on symptoms, says a new study. Those who were diagnosed with colon cancer as a result of symptoms were three times more likely to die during the study than the patients diagnosed after colonoscopy ...
  June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Colon wins 6th straight as A's rout Mariners 10-2
  Colon wins 6th straight as A's rout Mariners 10-2 Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 5:58 pm, Sunday, June 16, 2013 Colon worked seven strong innings to win his sixth straight decision, Reddick homered and matched a career high with four hits, and the Oakland Athletics avoided ...
  June 21, 2013 - seattlepi.com

Quotes

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• Theo Epstein in Canada.com
  Signing Colon to a minor league deal, we think is a no-risk, potential high-reward signing,Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein told baseball Web site mlb.com. "He's on a minor league contract and he's going to show up in camp tomorrow,...
• Brock Lesnar in OddsPreview.com
  Everything was in the air......because I'd lost so much weight,he added. "I thought I was going to have to have major surgery and have part of my colon removed and that would have been a two-year process for me to even come back from. I...