Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black leaders seem prepared to play Smith's game. "Don't make me laugh," snapped Nkomo. "We mean to push that man out of power and we shall do it." Mugabe said that his guerrillas would fight anybody involved with Smith-regardless of the color of his skin and whether or not he wore a clerical collar. But even the "internal" and moderate black leaders resisted the Smith ploy. Muzorewa said ie was prepared to talk with Smith-but only if the negotiations were based on an immediate transition to black rule Muzorewa added that...
Last week they learned the answer-blinking in the bright sunlight, his hair snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
...would not mind seeing a bit of skin to refresh my poor tired eyes from the heaviness of daily news. But I'd prefer to see some male skin, male string bikinis. How about some equal time...
Striking predominantly women in their childbearing years, lupus erythematosus ("red wolf disease") was given its bizarre name by 19th century doctors who thought that its characteristic reddish rash resembled a wolfs bite. Now physicians know that discolored skin is only one symptom of a far more pervasive ailment. Like rheumatoid arthritis, SLE is one of the so-called autoimmune diseases, caused by the body literally waging war on itself...
During the months and even years when the disease is in a mild stage, the patient may need only aspirin-or no treatment at all. But when lupus flares up, doctors resort to more powerful weapons. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control inflammations. Skin rashes can be reduced by antimalarial drugs, and even the immune system's rampaging white cells can be brought under control by some of the same potent drugs used against cancer cells...