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...sight startled visitors. There, in the center of Longzhao, a prospering village on the outskirts of the city of Chengdu, were the crumbling remains of a mud-brick house, its thatched roof scattered around it like straw dandruff. The hut, obviously abandoned, was surrounded by freshly constructed brick-and-concrete apartments. The eyesore was cleared away a few weeks ago, but why had it remained so long? "We kept it there so that people would remember what it was like five years ago," explains Ru Furong, director of Longzhao's garment factory. "We used it to educate the young...
...evaluation request forms flow into his office daily. Worried locals download the form from the school’s website and tape on samples of what they think might be head lice for analysis. But less than half actually are—the vast majority of samples are debris, dandruff and insect appendages mistaken for the tiny parasite...
...this catastrophe from consuming us as well. We're attempting to step outside the system and pretend we're not a part of it. And the moment you start to do that, you're inviting the system to cut you off, and you drop off like a bit of dandruff. I don't think we're slated for great things at this point." The solution? Archer, who founded the fate project (Future of Australia's Threatened Ecosystems), says 20% of the country's land needs to be made "conservation capable" (up from the current 8%) and that Australia must stop...
NEWS Procter & Gamble, maker of Head & Shoulders, announced last month that it had figured out what really causes dandruff. The culprit, it said, is a couple of yeastlike funguses, M. restricta and M. globosa, and not the fungus that has long been a primary suspect, M. furfur...
SECOND OPINION A bit flaky, or at least an oversimplification, say independent dermatologists. "No one knows for sure what causes dandruff," says Bruce Robinson, a dermatologist and spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology. "That's the frustrating part." Fungus may be the root cause, says Robinson, or it may simply be "a bystander" that likes to hang out with big clumps of skin cells. Inflammation of the scalp or excessive oil secretions may also play a role. For each theory, there's a remedy. Products like Head & Shoulders, Nizoral A-D and Selsun Blue have compounds that fight fungus...