Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would cost them their lives-undoubtedly put up a vigorous fight: Molotov, attacking Khrushchev's inept foreign policy; Malenkov, agilely trying to save his skin; and the sour-voiced Kaganovich, full of murderous hate for the man who had once been his protege. But they lost because the mass of the party was against them and had ordained that they should be formally shorn of their great offices and privileges. In its final stage...
...females. When chimerism occurs in cattle, the female is sterile-a freemartin. Mrs. McK. and Mrs. W. have each had three children, so human chimeras are not freemartins. Despite their originating from separate eggs, they may enjoy at least one of the advantages of identical (one-egg) twins: skin grafts between chimerical twins should "take" permanently...
...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...embarrassed U.S. Navy hastily evacuated the Rongelapese to two distant islands. Navy doctors treated and kept close check on the 45 who had suffered burns. Except for some skin discoloration, they all recovered with no serious permanent damage. But for a while the transplanted Rongelapese were bitter. "We done no wrong," they said. "We no understand why we should be punished...
Although no doctor knows quite how the springs work, there is some evidence that they often work very well. One follow-up survey showed that the water cure helps between 53% and 70% of patients with certain types of asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm...