Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter's hand to show a scar. The seven-year-old is barefoot, filthy, with sores on her mouth...
Weil "took a major dive" last summer and bruised her spine. Mello wears a jagged scar on his neck obtained recently when he skated through a clothes line in a nearby alley. Victor Luke, 28, sports, wounds on both elbows and knees in various stages of healing...
...ultimately, is doesn't matter. Gaps in logic are allowed in fairy tales and Tom Cruise movies. Irish accents don't need to be consistent. Injuries aren't permanent. Knockout punches to the eye and kidneys don't bruise, and they certainly don't scar. And people can die twice...
...attacks recur enough times, however, the lungs do not return to normal. They continue to act as if they are being invaded by parasites. This constant state of inflammatory alert damages the bronchial walls, creating scar tissue. As a result, the airways can no longer clear the mucus that forms deep in the lungs. The ensuing buildup reduces the flow of air and sets the stage for the next attack. "In olden times, which was only about five or 10 years ago, we all concentrated on the bronchospasm and assumed the patients were all right between episodes," says Dr. Peter...
...Your family is etched into you like tattoo, something that can make you ashamed or proud. But it is there anyway, occupying a space beneath the skin, at once both a decoration and a scar...