Word: skin
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Alas, there is a downside to this tale. Scientists now believe the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS), used in refrigeration systems are largely responsible for blowing a hole in the ozone, and that will cause potentially zillions of cases of skin cancer, cataracts and suppressed immune systems. That's quite a big Oops! for our exemplary Horatio Alger figure...
...first black policeman in Eufaula, Okla., and dressed as a child in just two pairs of jeans (the "good pair" had patches), Watts is the first African American to become a Republican leader in the House. The third-term Congressman, now clad in closely tailored suits and ostrich-skin boots, was elected chairman of the Republican Conference and in that role will help carry the Republican message to the world. The Oklahoman introduces diversity to a slate that has white men from Texas and Louisiana in the top three spots. And Republicans also hope that the football star turned Baptist...
...rest suspicions voiced by paleontological gadfly Robert Bakker that sauropods gave birth to live young--though the grinding wear patterns on the embryonic teeth hint that the little dinos probably did break out of their shells voraciously hungry. Under a microscope, the postage stamp-size patches of fossilized embryonic skin--the first ever found--turned out to have scales arrayed in distinctive patterns (rosettes, parallel rows) similar to the arrangement of the small bony plates on the backs of titanosaurs. This could mean, says Chiappe, that like modern crocodiles, the young sauropods grew body armor as they matured...
...long before A Bug's Life was finished, Pixar was on to a new set of enigmas: how to render photo-realistic hair and skin, how to make fabric crumple with verisimilitude when the character wearing it moves. "Look at how stunningly beautiful this is," says Lasseter, standing in the dirt outside the studio, holding a colorful autumn leaf up to the brilliant midday sun. "Look at the incredible detail. It's spectacular. It's a whole new world you can walk in." Why? Lasseter smiles as broadly as a child, dreaming, no doubt, of movie fantasies to come. "Because...
...researchers were cleaning up an infrequently-used chemical storage area in an attic of the Converse Chemical Laboratories. One researcher turned around a two-liter glass bottle of isopropyl chloroformate, an eye and skin irritant, to identify it. Moments later, the bottle burst...