Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things could pan out the way they did when Sally Ride shook things up on the space shuttle. With her bad '80s flyaway and skin-tight jumpsuit, Ride seemed as unlikely a candidate for equal rights crusader as Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). But just as Thurmond found the wherewithal this year to pat Nelson Mandela's back under a statue of Abraham Lincoln after calling the esteemed South African leader a terrorist thug a few years back, Ride surprised observers, especially those of us in elementary school at the time...
Calcium is not absorbed by the body without vitamin D. The ultraviolet rays of the sun manufacture D in the skin, but the efficiency of the factory declines with age. It drops even further if you live in the northern half of the country, where the sun is too low on the horizon half the year to help, and even lower if you keep your skin covered to protect it from cancer...
...warm vocals of Sarah McLachlan, the techno-folk of Beth Orton. Dido even looks a bit like Jewel. Dido's strong, throaty singing, however, distills her influences and makes her sound singular. Her lyrics could be a bit more pointed: "I just want to feel safe in my own skin/ I just want to be happy again" go the rather bland words to Honestly OK. But the real energy in Dido's songs is in the rhythm, in the smooth collision of genres and in the emotional details that her voice provides. This debut sparkles with promise...
...Kosovo crisis were a Hollywood film, Slobodan Milosevic would be on the run now, in a vain attempt to save his skin as his evil army disintegrated. Later in the movie he would be dragged before a chamber of bewigged jurists and, as the credits rolled, sentenced to his just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that...
ALLERGIC TO SHOTS? When doctors test for allergies, they often use a method that's scary enough to send anyone into a wheezing fit: they inject up to 50 allergens under the skin and then wait to see which causes a reaction. But the practice may be unnecessary. In pinpointing, for example, cat allergies, the shots turn out to be no more effective than lightly pricking the skin with an allergen or simply testing the blood...