Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1973, some 200,000 U.S. women have spent $12.95 for a book telling them how to get rid of a substance some call cellulite* (pronounced cell-u-leet), which supposedly accumulates beneath the skin to form unsightly dimples and bulges. Now thousands more, lured by television commercials, are shelling out $5.95 for a paperback version of the same book. As a result, Cellulite (Bantam Books) is on some newspaper bestseller lists. Nutritionists, who consider the book's premises unsound though essentially harmless, are shaking their heads in amusement-or envy...
...Harvard scientist said yesterday that industrial and agricultural pollution of the upper stratosphere could cause a 20-percent increase in skin cancer rates in the United States...
McElroy estimated that a 1-per-cent reduction of the ozone layer has occurred so far, causing a 2-per-cent increase in skin cancer...
...harmful effects of the increased ultra-violet radiation are "largely confined to light-skinned peoples" because of the lack of protection afforded by light-skin pigmentation. McElroy said...
...National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted, had caught wind of "another Sloan-Kettering affair" (an April 1974 incident in which a cancer researcher named Summerlin at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York was caught tampering with skin-graft data, and given a psychiatric leave) at Harvard...