Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geoffrey G. Jackson of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital said while a medical record would not disappear from a hospital floor at Brigham, "a person could come in with a white coat and scan a record at this or any other hospital...
Even the press box, that most sacred of all places, was peeling. Actually, it had recently been covered with a fresh coat of blue paint, but there were no signs warning anybody, and if you hadn't already noticed, blue paint and gold corduroys just don't make it. You feel like the pen in your left pocket has just leaked, and this time, it wasn't even your fault...
...mansion shone bright in a new coat of paint (applied expressly for the Inauguration). It was washed by intense incandescence, the Washington Monument rising behind the White House with equal brilliance and a three-quarter moon hanging above the whole scene...
Eating Cornflakes. Tests on mice show that a simple dietary change -feeding them only two days out of every three-can postpone all of the usual senile changes, from coat graying to tumors and loss of reproductive power. The key to aging rates in humans is far more complicated, but Comfort thinks a battery of tests can be devised to identify people who are aging unusually fast or slowly and to find out why. "If eating cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost...
...Zappa gets up from his rocking chair--his belly button is exposed (an innie, I think), and he's not wearing any underwear under those tight bell-bottoms (woo, woo)--he puts on a stylish coat, turns off the lights in his room (except one to keep the crooks out), and leaves...