Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution is to sullen the laws on the resale of tickets. A harsh penalty could be levied on those individuals who resell tickets for profit. Perhaps they should be forced to go through the above ritual ad infinitum. Or maybe they should shown the real meaning of the term "scalp...
RECOVERING. Charles Manson, 49, mass murderer serving a life sentence for the killings of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others; from second- and third-degree burns of his hands, scalp and face, after he was splashed with paint thinner and set ablaze by a fellow inmate and murderer, Jan Holmstrom, a Hare Krishna devotee who said that Manson complained about his continual chanting; in the California Medical Facility infirmary; in Vacaville, Calif...
...solution is scalp-reduction surgery, which can shrink a bald spot the size of a palm to the width of a finger. The procedure, developed about eight years ago in Canada, is performed in a doctor's office under local anesthesia. The plastic surgeon or dermatologist makes an incision in the crown and then tugs firmly on the scalp, pulling hair-covered areas from the sides of the head toward the bare area on top (see diagram). A section of the bald scalp is cut away, and the incision is closed with stitches. The 60-min. procedure...
...Upjohn. It proved to have the bizarre side effect of promoting hair growth everywhere on the body, probably because it increases blood supply to the hair follicles. Trying to make a virtue of necessity, Upjohn began a number of studies in which minoxidil ointment was rubbed onto the scalp. In Washington, D.C., early this month, Dr. Hideo Uno, of the University of Wisconsin, reported that "minoxidil stopped the natural process of balding" in monkeys that normally lose their hair. So far, results in humans have been less clear-cut. "There is no question that minoxidil can stimulate growth in some...
RECUPERATING. Michael Jackson, 25, rock-soul superstar; from an 80-minute laser surgical procedure to remove a palm-size patch of scalp tissue scarred from burns received while he was making a TV commercial last January; in Culver City, Calif. Healthy, hair-growing tissue was drawn across the area and stitched in place...