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...into androgens, Dr. Fisher pointed out, and these stimulate the production of sebum, the waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of the upper trunk and head. These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...
...gerbil was brought to the U.S. for medical research eleven years ago, moved into the pet world only in the past year. Word spread through the kiddie grapevine with the help of once-a-week TV appearances on NBC's Birthday House and a plug from Barbra Streisand (who owns two) on her recent CBS special. Today gerbils are in demand from New York to Alaska. In La Grange, Ill., the Parkway Pet Store sold 16 after putting a sign in the window. In Atlanta, the Ark Pet Shop has already sold 125, has more orders than...
...plug the leak would be for the Administration to take some steam out of the domestic economy-but such a course would bring results slowly. Some businessmen insist that the Government needlessly hampers the efforts of U.S. firms to sell abroad by mindless application of domestic anti-trust laws, by tax penalties, and by weak commercial staffs in embassies. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, last week argued for legislation creating new export tax incentives, which are often of little help...
...those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...
...even more stupendous, once laser beams can be used to produce full-color, three-dimensional images (see SCIENCE). Already neon lighting has freed some artists from pigment to experiment with pure colors that need not be squeezed from their tubes. So far, those who have tried out this plug-in Promethean palette have achieved mostly primitive op and pop effects. A few who are pioneering in the new art medium...