Word: rashly
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Finally! After a heat rash of teen comedies that promote adolescence as a frenetic party where every kid pairs off with a comely partner and has fabulous sex, here comes the genre's cleansing, toxic antidote--Ghost World, the Heathers of the new century, the movie that shows how morose and furtive an ordeal growing up can be. Residing both within Enid and Rebecca and at an ironic distance from them, the film allows the viewer to see them--and Seymour, that other displaced person--with a kind of detached sympathy. When Seymour calls himself "an amusingly cranky eccentric curiosity...
...when you're swimming is what tiny creatures might be swimming beside you. But the fact is that any pool can be contaminated with parasites and bacteria. If you're not careful, you could find yourself in the emergency room with a badly upset stomach or a scary-looking rash...
...when you're swimming is what tiny creatures might be swimming beside you. But the fact is that any pool can be contaminated with parasites and bacteria. If you're not careful, you could find yourself in the emergency room with a badly upset stomach or a scary-looking rash...
...where eight government soldiers repeatedly raped her and her colleagues. "They said we did not have honor. I looked at them and I said, 'Ahh, it's no use.'" The soldiers came again. And again. Florence kept working. She had no choice. Three years ago she fell ill. A rash spread across her sallow chest and her hair began to fall out. "A doctor came to our area and said come to the hospital for a checkup," she says. "So they did tests, and that was how I was told I was HIV positive." At first she thought AIDS...
There's still plenty you can do to protect yourself in a Lyme-infested neighborhood: tuck your pants in your socks, spray DEET on your clothing, check yourself and your kids for ticks. And if you develop a spreading red rash--particularly if it's accompanied by joint pain, chills or confusion--make sure you see a doctor right away. The trick, as always, is to be vigilant without overreacting...