Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offshore invasion -- mostly from Asia -- has brought with it no dilution of quality. University of Wisconsin Dean John Wiley notes that foreigners who apply for master's and Ph.D. programs "are the top 1% of the cream of the crop." But the pressure from these foreign candidates comes when bright young Americans seem less interested in higher technical education. Says Charles Vest, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor: "That reflects the general tendency in U.S. society for doing things in the short...
...that promise a more youthful complexion, many doctors cautiously agree that the mounting clamor may be justified. "People have gone absolutely crazy about it," declares Duane Tucker, a Manhattan Beach, Calif., skin doctor. "When it comes to sun damage, it's the closest thing we have to a youth cream...
...NASA to examine the moon's surface. The company claims that results so far have been positive and plans to submit its findings next year to the Food and Drug Administration. Although it is already approved for treating acne, Retin-A cannot be promoted as an anti- aging cream without FDA clearance...
Doctors generally advise patients to use the medicated cream (cost: $15 to $25 a tube) as often as every day for about six months, then less frequently after that. Side effects, which usually last two to six weeks, include skin irritation, scaling and peeling. Dermatologists caution against overdoing it. One woman, convinced that more is better, began slathering it on six times a day. Says Kurtin: "When she came in after a week, she was a mess...
...beam. The room is nasty, a shivering 52 degrees F as the air conditioner roars, its Off button broken. In a pancake house, tired women, Laverne and Rosalie according to their name tags, who have spent a lifetime on their feet, shuffle up to offer waffles with whipped cream fresh from a can. Poor sustenance for the hundreds of miles of Florida to come...