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Kimber said Gilette currently uses both the draize eye-irritancy test and the lethal-dose toxicity test in their laboratories, both of which were developed in the first half of the century. The draize test, involves immobilizing rabbits and dropping caustic substances into their eyes. In the lethal-dose toxicity test, poisonous substances are sprayed into the animals' faces...
...Connor and refuse to take a firm stand on such a specific issue during confirmation hearings. If the Democrats settle for this non-answer, they would save the Senate from a bloody floor fight but would incur the wrath of pro-choice activists everywhere. This could be lethal for Democrats and pro-choice Republicans alike...
...from the sun. Some 27,600 of those cases will be malignant melanoma, the deadliest type, which has been increasing 7% annually over the past decade and will kill 6,300 people this year. Most of the other skin cancers will be basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, less lethal but still dangerous if not treated in time. Some 2,500 victims of these cancers (mostly squamous cell) will die this year, and most of the others will undergo surgery, generally minor but occasionally disfiguring...
...skin. Melanomas are asymmetrically shaped, usually begin as mottled light brown or black blotches that eventually can turn red, white or blue in spots, become crusty and bleed. They grow rapidly, and once they have expanded to about the thickness of a dime, they have probably metastasized and become lethal...
...this novel, based on a true story, Matthiessen is pretty good at mythmaking himself. From the evidence he gives, there is no reason to think the real Edward J. Watson was much more than a serial killer with trading smarts that were offset by lethal outbursts of meanness. But the reader doesn't see much of that side. Oh, Watson beats his son every Sunday and throws a half-caste mistress off his land when she becomes inconvenient. But the narrative, which is told in 36 short chapters by ten locals, mostly mixes awe and dread, along with a certain...