Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could forget such wonderful characters like Dentist Dan, who "filks my cavakies/Wid choclut cangy...The graygest nentis in the lan." Or poor Peggy Ann McKay (sick with the measles, mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps), Backwards Bill (who puts on his underwear over his clothes) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who never had a playmate because she never took the garbage...
...First the fall semester exam period then thesis season passed without an explosion of publicity about new cases. The near-hysteria of last year s perceived epidemic remained just a memory. Now, a year after the first rash of publicity, it seems appropriate to ask just what happened. Was it just some sort of premature millenial outbreak? God s belated answer to the prayers of the Luddites? Or is the the perceived drop-off merely a mirage, a product of the short attention span of our own Fourth Estate? The fact is, no one really knows...
...model, Harvard students, aware of what they see as impending danger of RSI, might jump the gun and anticipate the pain. This would fit what Suleiman described as the almost faddish nature of the disorder, its "trendiness." Students made hyper-aware of the dangers of RSI from a sudden rash of articles in campus publications might therefore be more likely to come down with it themselves...
...useful purpose in reminding architecture's public that, yes, there was indeed a vast repertory of form and ornament on which early, messianic Modernism had turned its back. But it was mostly skin deep, and it kept turning into a kind of false nostalgia--a parallel to the rash of "heritage" fetishism in the 1980s...
...most important thing to remember if you get vaccinated is that you can still develop Lyme disease. So pay attention to any unusual symptoms, like an expanding red rash, that might indicate an active infection. The vaccine makes diagnosis a little more complicated since it means you will automatically test positive on the most commonly used test. There is also a theoretical risk that the vaccine could mask the rash, but once again researchers found no evidence of this effect in the trial...