Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair-haired descendant of freckled Irishmen, I once got scorched in just 10 minutes on the Texas coast. So, I take the risk of skin cancer pretty seriously. I jog in the morning, when the sun's rays are least intense, wear a hat when I'm out all day and try to keep my arms and legs covered. But if you're like me, you may discover that the hardest part of staying out of the red this summer is picking the right sunscreen. At my local drugstore last week, I counted no fewer than 66 formulas with nearly...
...Once an upwardly mobile employee of a FORTUNE 500 company based in a large Southwestern city, Alicia is in her mid-30s but looks 50. Her face is pocked and pitted from her attempts to pick out the crystals of methamphetamine that, she swears, used to form under her skin. Alicia moved to Montana several years ago in hopes of escaping the bigger city's crank scene. She says the subcutaneous crystals aren't a problem now; the Billings meth is not so pure. Not that it matters, because she's quitting...
...they're costumed by the woman who used to dress Madonna--they're lame: they don't have sex (with each other or, it seems, anyone else). They work all the time. They believe in extraterrestrials. In real life, Mulder and Scully would be weirdos--bookish types with bad skin whom you avoid in the hallways...
...first tangible evidence that the passing years do indeed have me in their grip, if only a gentle one, I am not made to feel better in dermatology. I tell Dr. Kenneth Tomecki, a dermatologist who is also in his 50s, that I am concerned about dry facial skin. He seems unfazed. "Young people are greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says...
...have just discovered that my hearing is compromised, red spots are beginning to decorate my parched skin, and now Cindy Moore, the clinic's dietitian, informs my that my total cholesterol is too high. It has jumped to 222 from the previous year's 195. Cholesterol, the fatty substance crucial to cell functioning, contributes to atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the arteries, which is a major cause of heart disease. My level is not alarmingly high, but vascular disease is rampant among males in my family, resulting in generations of heart attack and stroke...