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...brain drain—it’s such an extravagance to send those we educate back to their countries of origin, to waste their education among non-American peoples—the very presence of foreigners on our soil (especially that of the wild Canadian hordes) makes my skin crawl. And there’s only one thing that makes my skin stop crawling—apple pie, just like my mom makes (my mom, who is American?...
...dormitory, especially in Pennypacker? Surely you jest! But alas, while we all slept innocently in our narrow beds, thinking of nothing but course packs and profound questions to ask during section, scabies crept into our lives (for some quite literally—the mite Sarcoptes scabiei tunnels into the skin of humans). Two Saturdays ago, three Pennypacker residents reached the end of their ropes after discovering rashes. And so they took their queries to the one place we all know and trust on campus: University Health Services (UHS). These rash-ed freshmen emerged from UHS armed with a bottle...
...Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role - anyway, film scene - she went platinum blond...
...very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don't get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight (and darker skin) is the source of the "Latin lover" libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin...
...Danone is one of the best things we can imagine for the future," says Riboud. Replacing the unopened package of cookies on the table, Sacchi mentions that in Europe, Danone has just launched something called Essensis, a yogurt that he claims is good for your skin. What's next--yogurt that makes your hair grow? "Nobody would have bet that a yogurt made to help you go to the toilet more often would be a success," he says with a shrug. Just try doing that with a cookie...