Word: pored
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weak chemical peel--in her case with lactic acid. Nowadays she would have plenty of company in that tub. Jayne Singer, 46, a special-ed teacher, found that the stresses of her job helping inner-city Los Angeles teens were taking a toll on her face. She tried toners, pore cleansers, eye creams and masks of egg yolk and witch hazel. Nothing worked. Then she hit upon glycolic peels and fruit acids. She effuses, "They're melting away layers. Of work? Or skin? Who knows...
...Widener Library: 1. Mammoth library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...bring a camera. Inevitably, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...
...fans aren't unusual in the music world, but Belle and Sebastian--not a duo, but a mixed-gender septet from Glasgow, Scotland--inspires cultish adoration from folks too old and too smart to be hanging posters on the wall. The group's votaries meet in coffee houses to pore over lyrics. A couple proudly reported naming their children Belle and Sebastian. There's even a website devoted to--no joke--original fiction inspired by B&S songs. What artistic force could cause perfectly normal adults to regress into thoroughly obsessed teens...