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Artifacts inside the bandies layer include the biggest tuba in the world, a bass drum named Bertha, as well as pictures of past bands and a number of "borrowed" sings...
Fewkes, a skin oncologist, utilizes the technique in skin cancer and leg ulcer surgery. Removal of skin cancers often creates large holes in the epidermis, or outermost layer of skin, which must be filled in, she says. The treatment of leg ulcers, large skin wounds which do not heal, is based on skin replacement...
...clues about patterns of growth and differentiation in skin cells. A 1989 study by Carolyn C. Compton, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School and a pathologist at MGH, found that the skin of patients treated with cultured skin grafts up to five years ago had developed lower layer skin, or dermis, rather than developing scar tissue...
Americans are so uneasy because they feel economic turmoil on two levels, one relatively superficial and the other much deeper. The surface layer is the most immediately painful one, a garden-variety recession of the sort that comes along every few years with the ups and downs of the business cycle. This one has brought the familiar pattern of layoffs and weak profits...
...Antarctic ozone hole has gone global. Under assault by man-made chlorofluorocarbons, levels of the vital stratospheric gas have begun to decline over temperate latitudes both north and south of the equator, including the skies above most of the continental U.S. The thinning ozone layer lets more solar ultraviolet light reach the ground, and the incidence of skin cancer and cataracts is likely to rise as a result...