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During his years at the Medical school George D. Snell wrote his 1930 graduate thesis on "Observations on Three Unit Characteristics of the House Mouse, Short-Ear, Hairless, and Naked, with Special Reference to Linkage." Fifty years later, presumably after dealing with many more mice, he too picked up a Nobel Prize...

Author: By Gil Citro, | Title: Theses of the Rich and Famous | 1/28/1987 | See Source »

Thirty-one teams stretching the East Coast will take part in the three-day meet, which traditionally features more hairless men--swimmmers traditionally "shave down" in an attempt to gain speed--than a convention on baldness...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Easterns Kick Off at Blodgett; Crimson Looks For 8th Straight | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...serious body building, a will to control the body becomes an ambition to transform it. The flesh, mastered, becomes art: hairless, oiled, gargantuan. In ironic alchemy, all the exertions and self-denials turn the body into a gleaming masterpiece of excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Body Beautiful: Pumping Ironies | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Charles River critters have a distinguished history in the development and testing of vitamins, antibiotics, insulin, contraceptives and cancer drugs. Now the company has another product: the nude, athymic mouse, a hairless, pink-colored model bred without a thymus, the gland that helps the body develop immunity against outside infection. The first of these mice was an unexpected mutation, which was then bred to other mice in the Charles River labs. Now the company turns out more than 250,000 of these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mighty Mice | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

This tactic is usually reserved for post-season championship competition. The physiological and psychological stimulation provided by competing with hairless arms and legs invariably leads to faster than normal times...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Hackett and Crimson Swamp UMaine | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

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