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Word: scars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to carry into the presidency all of the baggage and scar tissue of the last few years?" Shannon said, adding that his candidate offers the country a fresh start...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gore, Bradley Staffers Stump for Student Aid | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...week) with the newer Erbium lasers, which are cooler and can be used on the thinner surface of the neck and chest as well as the face, as long as the doctor exercises caution. Yet even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse, up to 20% of CO2-laser patients (and possibly some Erbium ones as well) risk ending up with whitened skin one to two years after the procedure, according to Dr. Jay Burns, a laser specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...really a wizard. What's more, he is famous throughout the wizard world; although his parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort (so feared that he is referred to only as "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"), the infant Harry survived the attack with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...bigger than a match head, he inserted a hollow probe. Within minutes the suspicious calcifications were vacuumed out and snipped off with a rotating blade, ready for analysis. After about an hour, I was on my way home with an ice pack on a tiny wound. No stitches. No scar. And a few days later, the good news: benign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Summer Scare | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...wait a minute! A wire through the breast? A scar? A grape? We're talking about my breasts, which I happen to be quite fond of. And given their modest proportions, I hardly had any to spare. Fear and vanity battled for control. Even though 80% of biopsies are benign, I was terrified the doctors would find cancer. I panicked. I wanted another opinion. Lots of other opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Summer Scare | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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