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...with thinning dark hair, sits in the doctor's chair, his scalp red, scarred, infected. Dermatologist Marvin Lepaw and an aide hover over him. Slowly, methodically, using magnifying glass and tweezers, they pluck out one hair after another. The agonizing scene in Lepaw's Hicksville, N.Y., office is not an isolated incident. Doctors round the country are now trying to undo the dangerous fallout from yet another quack treatment for baldness: the implanting of synthetic fibers into the scalp...
...dusty, steamy Abadan, where temperatures routinely hover at 100° F and the airport VIP lounge has lately been converted into a mosque, an air of normality appears to have returned. But life is anything but normal inside the world's largest refinery (capacity: 630,000 bbl. per day) in the heart of the city. Members of the workers' council argue interminably. Said one welder after a particularly boisterous session: "Nobody can make any decisions. All anybody does is talk...
...Crimson fired a team total of 321 to hover in 6th place, 13 strokes behind UConn and a single shot behind Providence. UMass was second at the halfway mark with a 310 aggregate. The winning quintet qualifies for the NCAAs later this month at the Wake Forest University Course...
...aboard freighters, trawlers or large (often stolen) yachts. These mother ships, as they are called, are monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard at a series of "choke points" as they work their way north through the Caribbean. But American authorities have little power as long as the drug ships hover outside the twelve-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Using sophisticated electronic equipment, the smugglers on these mother ships monitor Government surveillance and attempt to rendezvous with souped-up speedboats and pleasure craft that dart out from the U.S. coast at night on duty-free shopping sprees, just...
Other songs on the album go the opposite way--tones and squeals ornament the chillier lyrics about sanitized society. On "Green Shirt," an obstinate bass pulse and the rat-tat-tat of a machine gun drum hover behind these lyrics...