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...pills increasing steadily around the world, many questions arise. Just what are the pills? How do they work? Are they certain? Are they safe? What are the disadvantages and discomforts of using them? How long can a woman go on taking them? Could they cause cancer or deform babies in the womb? MEDICINE reports and analyzes the answers and concludes that, in nearly every case, they are reassuring...
...projected his internal emotions into this world of objects. He painted few human figures, confessed that he found the human form ugly. While his comrade in Cubism, Picasso, was sensual, Spanish, and an endless innovator, Braque was rational, French, and restrained. As Braque explained in 1917: "The senses deform, the mind forms. Reality grows out of contained emotion. I like the rule that corrects the emotion." But from his penchant for paradox, he added, "I love the emotion that corrects the rule...
...what it finds on the icecap. What it finds is snow, which gradually turns into solid ice about 15 ft. below the surface. Treated properly, both snow and ice are useful structural materials, easy to excavate and excellent insulators. They melt when exposed to heat, and deform slowly from their own weight, but the engineers have learned to minimize these failings...
...Baby's pacifier, long condemned as unsanitary, likely to cause disease and deform the teeth, is making a comeback. An American Dental Association spokesman wrote in Today's Health that many pediatricians and dentists now regard the pacifier as the lesser of two evils when compared with thumb sucking. Strong point in the pacifier's favor: children give them up earlier (usually at 14 months), then usually do not take to the thumb, which can gravely deform the permanent teeth...
...remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...