Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember Alyssa Milano, the fresh-faced kid on Who's the Boss? These days a more, um, adult side of the actress, and countless other stars, is on display at unauthorized pay-for-celebrity-skin websites offering film stills, candids and digitized fakes. Alyssa's angry mom Lin Milano formed CyberTrackers to combat the sites and last week filed suit--the first of its kind--against two of them. A case to watch...
FAMILY SKELETONS More evidence that if your mother has osteoporosis, you may be at risk for it: researchers have found a mutation in a gene that codes for collagen (the tough fibrous protein in skin and bone), which could predispose women to the bone-weakening ailment...
Small electrical devices can similarly distorta plane's navigational instruments. To preventjust such electrical interference, the FAArequires all passengers to "turn off allcomputers, headsets, radios and telephones" duringtakeoff and landing. Although the energy radiatedby these devices is small, it can travel outwardto antennas mounted on the skin of the plane,causing serious interference in the aircraft'snavigational instruments and guidance systems...
...magazine. He was demanding of the people who worked for him and equally tough on the people he worked for, expecting his own high standards to be applied below and above him. He did this all with a twinkle in his eye and a gruffness that wasn't even skin deep. Along the way, his heart failed him, several times, but he continued jetting around the world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died...
...SKINNY New insight into scleroderma, a puzzling and life-threatening skin disease: a study suggests fetal cells that linger in the mother after she gives birth may somehow trigger the disease...