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...Height can be calculated, within an inch or two, from the lengths of the major arm or leg bones. Race can be indicated by the texture of the hair or from certain features of the skull, among them the shape of the eye sockets and the spacing of the nasal apertures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches Reading the Bones | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...have to look too closely to notice that there are no less than five randy women draped in creamy shaving lotion on the man's smiling face. Three curvaceous nymphs are peering into his nasal hair, another, blissfully supine, is nearing a crescendo of ecstasy on his chin, and a naughty fifth, ruby lips in a pout, flashes her best "come hither" eyes...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Change Your Existence | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...fluid, causing the equivalent of death by drowning. Others had suffered heart attacks. The disaster struck hardest at children and old people, whose lungs were either too small or too weak to withstand the poison. A number of the survivors were permanently blinded, others suffered serious lesions in their nasal and bronchial passages. Doctors also noticed concussions, paralysis and signs of epilepsy, suggesting, they said, the presence of some other chemical-perhaps phosgene, which is used to make methyl isocyanate. Six days after the accident, patients were still arriving at Hamidia Hospital at the rate of one a minute, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Night of Death: Bhopal | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...water, and can easily be absorbed through the skin or inhaled. It causes moist human tissues like lung interiors to swell and the eyes to develop cataracts. Victims can suffocate because MIC causes the lungs to fill with fluid, and they can suffer liver damage and burning of the nasal passages, throat and trachea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Deadly Gases | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...acceptance speech Mondale avoided the high-pitched delivery that sometimes sounds shrill on television, speaking more slowly and in more natural if nasal tones. Mondale contended that "the drowsy harmony of the Republican Party" contrasts with the open debates of the Democratic Party, and he claimed that there was another difference: "They are a portrait of privilege, and we are a mirror of America." Addressing anyone who voted for Reagan in 1980, he said, "I heard you. And our party heard you." He had learned since then, he conceded, "that America must have a strong defense, and a sober view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drama and Passion Galore | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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