Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across from an old woman in Dunkin' Donuts who just stared at me. I don't think she was impudent, simply curious. Her fingers were stained by nicotine and they were fiddling with a fag end. The rivulets in the skin of her face never moved. I was smoking a cigarette. A friend was sitting next to me. That must have been the old woman's husband next to her, although they didn't seem to be paying each other any mind. She eyed my friend and me as we tried to understand what the Greek baker was telling...
When the fires died down, the Belknap's casualties were swung aboard the Ricketts in stretchers. Some of the men were so badly burned that they lost strips of skin during the transfer...
...parade was in honor of the tenth anniversary in power of Zaïre's ebullient President, Mobutu Sese Seko, 45. Wearing his familiar leopard-skin hat, Mobutu proudly watched the arms roll by from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone...
...medical-products division of General Atomic and at Rancho Los Amigos, a hospital associated with the University of Southern California. The arm, which can be fitted with either a hook or a normal-looking hand, does not look much different from other powered prostheses. But the similarities are only skin deep. Most artificial arms use a system of receivers on the surface of the skin and microtransmitters under the skin to carry messages from the nerves to the arm's controls, plus belt-carried batteries for power. Hilton's arm needs neither. Its controls are directly connected...
Powerful Pinch. To attach the arm, Dr. Vert Mooney and his colleagues inserted three "buttons" or fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand...