Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section's senior editor, James Atwater, also jogs away tension and praises biofeedback techniques, which he learned in a program at Duke University two years ago. Yet another runner is Medicine Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter, who has tried a "tranquillity tank," spending half an hour floating in a dark saltwater chamber. "I didn't begin to feel the beneficial effect until afterward," she reports. "Suddenly I was HUGH PATRICK BROWN refreshed and clear and focused, and the relaxed feeling lasted longer than that from any other technique I've tried...
...civilian communities of the Bekaa Valley, Arafat was working hard to strengthen his position as well as to demonstrate his continuing support. On one of these excursions, his eight-vehicle motorcade raced over the rutted, dusty roads of eastern Lebanon at 70 m.p.h., with the chairman riding in a dark-blue, late-model Chevrolet sedan equipped with bulletproof windows. At a stop along the way, as a group of bedraggled soldiers stood around him, Arafat said of the mutiny, "It is over. It is over." Again he blamed Gaddafi for the trouble, declaring that the Libyan leader "thought his money...
...damage caused by these invisible rays ranges from ordinary sunburn, to the wrinkles and liver spots caused by years of sunbathing, to the precancerous dark patches known as actinic keratosis and, finally, cancer. Each of these is part of the same process, says Urbach. "First you look old, then if you've had a lot more sun, you get keratosis, and after that skin cancer. If we all lived long enough, we would all get skin cancer...
...next parading the wonders of his clothes closet, a room about the size of a C.E.O.'s office. There are a wall of shoes and long racks of blazers, slacks and other 19th-hole formal wear. "I wear them all," says Hope, solemnly fondling a pair of dark-green trousers covered with small mistletoe emblems. "I wear these at Christmas...
Nietzsche could hardly wait to turn 15; a new edition of Kleist was his birthday present. Rilke scribbled verses by the grave of the "dark, impatient Kleist." Wagner and Brahms agreed on few matters; Kleist's brilliance was one of them...