Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic equipment to flash to earth data on such matters as cosmic rays and gravitational pull will account for 80% of the weight. The skin of the hollow ball will be one-fiftieth of an inch thick. Jutting from the sphere's surface will be four collapsible antennas and a coupling device that will release the moon from the last of the three rockets needed to blast it into space (TIME...
...heredity. On the basis of a six-year study of several hundred Utah families, the geneticists concluded that only three extremely rare kinds can be transmitted as inherited characteristics. They are multiple polyposis (which may develop into intestinal cancer), retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye), xeroderma pigmentosum (which may become skin cancer...
...color-press room, learned by interviewing the 240 men who worked there that the symptoms were most marked in the winter, when the heat was on and the windows closed. After more tests with two of the most persistent sufferers, Printers Angelo Puglisi and William Grimes, Dr. Lewis consulted Skin Specialist Dr. Louis Schwartz, concluded that the reaction was similar to the reaction of drinkers to Antabuse, the anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount of antiscum compound used in its color...
...fight severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remedies-tannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis. But the victim of an extensive burn (more than 10% of the skin) is in most critical danger from loss of fluid and shock. The standard treatment for this has long been to administer either whole blood or blood plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they...
Drenched to the skin, they dry out their clothes before a roaring fire and very nearly burn the last social bridge between them. Village gossip assumes the worst, and Hatsue's father plays the ogre. In the popular Japanese tradition, true love of this kind is expected to end badly, preferably with a double suicide jump off the face of a cliff or into a volcano. Novelist Mishima resolutely avoids the bucket-of-tears finale for an imitation Western happy ending, which will startle readers by its incongruity. But love in Japan is not so much the book...