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*Sept. 28, 2006, 12:40AM* Zero-G surgery shoots for the stars That's one small snip for a team of French surgeons, one giant leap for medicine in space

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press

MERIGNAC, FRANCE - A small, pink object floated near the hands of surgeons who were removing a cyst from a man's arm. One of the doctors, strapped to the wall with mountain-climbers' gear, flicked it away. A piece of tissue then eerily floated upward.

Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors took to the skies Wednesday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions, as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.

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