Word: facials
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...then there are the walking wounded: the thousands of survivors whose minds cannot yet comprehend the full extent of their tragedy. Dozens of people who come to our kitchen bear the telltale signs of a nervous breakdown in progress, the stuttering, the facial tics. Many others are in deep denial, like Varsha, a Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard...
...which relays the electrical impulses involved in muscular movement. The last great breakthrough in treatment was in the late 1960s, when the "miracle" drug levadopa, or L-dopa-the chemical precursor of dopamine-was discovered to "unfreeze" patients who for decades had been practically rigid, unable even to produce facial expressions. Though it remains the standard treatment for Parkinson's, there is a serious downside to L-dopa. After a couple of years, during which patients seem to be cured, they start developing the jerky, uncontrolled twitching and tremors that most people today associate with Parkinson...
...wasn't expecting to catch more than a few cheap thrills: a Vince Carter facial here, an Allen Iverson crossover there. Yet what I saw on Sunday night was a new and exciting batch of superstars taking the reigns of basketball stardom from the old guard...
Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology David G. Mitten, the course professor, described the man as tall and thin, with facial hair, a dark complexion and dark clothes. He said the man looked "extremely agitated...
...exam was just beginning with several slide identifications at 9:30 a.m. when the man--who the course professor described as tall and thin, with facial hair, a dark complexion and dark clothes--entered the room through the doors in the room's back at around 9:30 a.m. The professor, David G. Mitten, Loeb professor of classical art and archaeology, said the man looked "extremely agitated...