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...beach during their youth are most prone to skin cancers 20 years later. "The sun can do them in," Tomecki notes. Warning signs are new hard bumps on the skin that grow larger, and rough and irritated skin patches that do not heal; sometimes they have a pinkish border. Most moles are harmless, but if they grow crust or bleed, you should see a dermatologist...
...more telling, Moore reported, the corner reflectors were put together with beams made of balsa wood and coated with "Elmer's-type" glue (to strengthen them). Also, he noted, the New York toy company that manufactured the reflectors had reinforced the seams with leftover tape that Moore recalled had "pinkish-purple abstract flower-like designs"--markings that Major Marcel could have interpreted as hieroglyphics...
...find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy was gleaming on Mr. Hung's lips. He looked drunk, his face pinkish and raw, his eyes boiled, and he was smiling in a vicious way as he chewed with his mouth open." And if bad table manners are not disgusting enough, Hung may be guilty of murdering one of Imperial Stitching's working women...
...dwindling of reefs in the world's oceans, scientists acknowledge, will not immediately destroy the organisms that build them. Many corals spawn en masse, releasing a vast pinkish slick of fertilized eggs that ride ocean currents for hundreds of miles. In the natural cycle, one reef rises as another declines. This cycle is what humans are now disrupting, however, and no one can foresee what the consequences will be. Creating more marine preserves can help, but even if the reefs are patrolled by armed guards, they may not be able to withstand the twin juggernauts of exploding population...
Even with all these tools, McDonald can only approximate what a nondiabetic pancreas does naturally. A pinkish-yellow organ the size of a banana, the pancreas contains millions of specialized cells that continuously manufacture insulin and package it in microscopic granules. In response to rising blood- glucose levels, these tiny factories release the granules into the bloodstream. As glucose levels fall, the insulin release tapers off, thus preventing blood sugar from plummeting to dangerous levels and starving the brain of fuel -- and consciousness. Fortunately, this life-threatening condition, known as hypoglycemia, can easily be countered by eating or drinking something...