Word: skinful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...issue is poisonous enough to have provoked a revolt by a few imperiled Republican candidates, who either have refused to follow the White House advice to beat the war drums or are modifying it drastically to try to save their skin. Representative Tom Reynolds of New York, chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, says that local issues are more important than national security. "The national media always asks, 'What's your national issue?'" says Reynolds. "We don't have a national issue." At least, that's his hope. Most of the Republicans in tough races who distance themselves from...
...ordinary quarter, on the arm of a fellow student under hypnosis in medical school. I told her it was a burning coal but that she couldn't move to take it off. We thought her grimacing seemed a little fake. But the very obvious inflammation of the skin touching the quarter was not. It showed that the brain's control of specific, tiny nerves - in this case the tiny blood vessels in the skin - is profound...
...Finally, depression and hormones have a lot to do with pain in some people. Back and neck pain flare-ups in people under stress are commonplace. We have successfully treated many pain patients with anti-depressants. Back in the days of female hormone replacement therapy, samples of estrogen skin patches gave great relief of all sorts of joint pains suffered by certain peri-menopausal patients. Exercise, strangely enough, seems to have taken the place of the hormones we used to give - with nearly the same pain relief. This might be a covert form of hormonal therapy itself; the "pleasure hormones...
...dirt, the debris everywhere, the plume of smoke. People tended not to be out. Traffic was cut off for a while. I think it was the closest any of us have come to living in a war zone. It was a war zone. The stench, the tingle on your skin. There were power outages everywhere. The fires were burning for months. There was also a lot of confusion about what was safe and what was not. The air felt horrible, but no one knew whether it was poisonous...
...might be. Unlike the old-fashioned belt exercisers that just shifted skin around, the Power Plate uses whole-body vibration, or WBV, to contract muscles 30 to 50 times per second. While you stand on the moving plates in the bent-knee position recommended for beginners, the continual vibration causes you to tense and relax your muscles to keep your balance. Even without the vibration, you would involuntarily tense and release just to hold the pose. But the WBV forces you to do so up to 50 times more. That's quite a workout for so little effort...