Word: hairs
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...Rice, Dan Quisenberry, George Brett, Eddie Murray and Mike Schmidt all make more than $2 million base salary; Gary Carter, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith and Willie Wilson fall just a hair short of that mark...
...more. IBM scientists announced last week that a crystal about the size of a quarter but only one-hundredth the thickness of a human hair has handled more than 100,000 amps. Other obstacles remain, including the difficulty of molding the new material. But, says IBM's Praveen Chaudhari, "if you told me two weeks ago that we would have high-temperature superconductors that carry high currents, I would have said you were dreaming. Now if someone told me we will have useful devices made of this material next month, I wouldn't call him a dreamer. That...
...perfect figure and a smile that could light up the Statue of Liberty. But the feature that most people will probably remember is her hair, whipping seductively around her in Gilda, cascading over her shoulders on the cover of LIFE and in thousands of World War II pinup posters. If Jean Harlow was Hollywood's love goddess in the '30s and Marilyn Monroe in the '50s, the '40s ideal was Rita Hayworth, who died at 68 last week in Manhattan of complications from Alzheimer's disease...
...never had to claw her way into show business. As Margarita Cansino, a member of a famous family of Spanish dancers, she was dancing 20 shows a week professionally when she was in her early teens. Her father made his daughter his partner, and dyed her brown hair black in an attempt to make her look more Latin. Precociously alluring as well as arrestingly attractive, Rita soon found a place in such B-grade movies as Under the Pampas Moon (1935). At 18 she married Edward Judson, a sometime auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real...
...Because measles is a droplet infection, it mostly occurs in closed environments when little micro-droplets from breathing are carried along by dust or particles from hair spray," says Postel...