Word: bathes
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Louis Slesin's stories have a tendency to shock. Like the one about the 23 workers at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., who got "sunburns" one rainy day when someone on a Navy frigate flicked on the ship's radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
...cancer common in AIDS patients that produces severe skin lesions. The doctors thought that heating a patient's blood might combat the cancer and possibly even kill the AIDS virus. During the procedure, called hyperthermia, blood is drawn from a vein in the groin, heated in a water bath and continuously recirculated into the body. In little more than an hour, the body's temperature reaches 108 degrees F, and it is kept there for an additional two hours. Crawford came through the operation with no ill effects, as did Tony -- so far. Logan and Alonso were careful...
When Kuchchi Devi, 24, and her husband Dhanraj, 26, used to walk together to the well for a bath, the villagers of Saton Dharampur would sigh at the grace of this "pair of swans," as they were called. He was tall and handsome. She was lovely, with smooth skin and sloping eyes. The local landlord, Arjun Singh, noticed Kuchchi's beauty too. One day last month he approached her as she cut wheat in his fields and offered her two bullocks and other favors if she would sleep with him. Dhanraj angrily told Singh to leave his wife alone. That...
...first of his generation to get so near the presidency. Was it all dumb luck? Garry Wills looks at the secret of his success. -- Sunbelt mud bath: Democrats in Texas, Florida and California cut each other up while G.O.P. candidates are rested, ready and rich...
...page mailing, titled "An Appeal to Parents," Martin S. Wishnatsky refers to Harvard as " a bath house on the Charles" where "dildos are hung up to dry and sexually 'disoriented' students begin another day in the land of 'wrong is right' morality...