Word: rashness
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Though the emotions provoked by this week’s attacks are raw, there is great danger in mounting a rash strike against the wrong target purely to satisfy a desire for quick retribution. Retribution is, no doubt, in order. But lobbing a few ineffectual cruise missiles at suspected terrorist compounds—as we did following the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa—will do little to promote our long-term security. If anything, such a policy could incite further violence against the United States...
...friends. But his death should be a lesson for the rest of us, a tragic reminder of how dangerous the combination of high heat and stifling humidity can be. Of course, most troubles with overheating don't progress quite so far. Often you get nothing more than a heat rash, muscle cramps or headache. Things can get very serious very fast, however, depending on your underlying physical condition, how dehydrated you've become and whether or not you have had time to acclimate to a surge in temperature. Still, the most devastating conditions--like the heatstroke that killed Stringer...
...Nancy Kariuki began using skin-lightening creams aged 18 after she developed a rash on her face. "After a few weeks I noticed where the patch had been was very smooth," says Kariuki, now 30, who works as a production assistant in a Nairobi advertising company. She began applying it every night to her whole face. Her skin grew lighter but every time she was exposed to too much sun "my face went red and three weeks later it would all peel off." Friends told her that the cream may be dangerous but she persisted. Even her maid started...
...longer against mosquitoes and other biting bugs, including those that transmit Lyme disease, than the so-called natural bug sprays, which usually contain various plant oils. Since the chemical is absorbed readily into the skin, it's always best to apply any DEET products sparingly. Common side effects include rash, swelling, itching and eye irritation--usually a result of rubbing the eyes with hands that have been sprayed...
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...