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...Using an instrument resembling a vegetable peeler, Himel begins peeling back the hardened, white, dead skin on the woman's burned chest. "I know I've reached healthy skin if there's bleeding," he says. After a few thin layers have been removed, blood begins to ooze. While Polynice mops it up, Himel continues to peel away at dead skin until he reaches the fat and muscle layer underneath...
...Having removed all the dead skin from the chest and neck, Himel holds the patient's left thigh taut while the surgical assistant uses an electric-powered device to peel away two foot-long strips of the epidermis and the upper part of the dermis from the woman's left...
...some, nobody will ever fill Emma Peel's leather bodysuit like Dame Diana Rigg. Still, UMA THURMAN is doing a creditable job. The Suit--a staple of the '60s British show The Avengers--is back again now that the show is being made into a feature film (a movie of a TV show! Why didn't anyone think of this before?!), with Thurman, RALPH FIENNES and Sean Connery. As for the old Avengers, they're perfectly happy. "Actors complain that their TV shows have not been good for them, but The Avengers has been great to me," says Patrick Macnee...
...juiced. With GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, that is. Just one glass helps the body better absorb certain sedatives, antihistamines and other medications. The active compound probably comes from the squeezed peel--so eating the fruit itself doesn't help much...
...Today show to the CBS Morning News. She started a new line of products at K Mart. What all this means is that an encounter with Martha will go on being an experience not so different from getting hit by a Mack truck full of daisies. As you peel yourself off the macadam, you're free to cry out against all that is filigreed, twice marinated and hand dipped. You may even be allowed to live. But you will know you have met the woman who sold colonial Williamsburg to Levittown...