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...parent should-through an anaphylactic reaction to dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, or seeds is torture because she sees the effect it has on Maya. One of the symptoms of food allergy is dread, Mindlin explains. She knows something is very wrong and literally tries to jump out of skin. It's unbearable to watch. As a result, Maya tends to shut down around food and new people. Some of Maya's first words, her mother says, were "Read the 'gredients...
...just one of the more skin-crawling scenes in The Little Dog Laughed, a play by Douglas Carter Beane that wouldn't be worth talking about if it hadn't received mostly rave reviews when it opened off-Broadway last winter, hyping it enough to effect a Broadway transfer this fall. New York theater critics are so starved for something besides musicals to talk about on Broadway that they tend to overrate trifles like this. But The Little Dog Laughed is worse than a trifle; it's an embarrassment...
...complete stranger yanking my t-shirt down and proceeding to shoot me a look of disdain that—at one fell stroke—dismissed me based on nothing more than the clothes I was wearing. But the Egyptian taboo against baring even the smallest bit of skin runs much deeper than mere cultural norms; it is rooted in religion. One does not need to travel to Cairo to witness it—the hijab, or headscarf donned by millions of Muslim women throughout the world, including close family members of mine, is increasingly visible in Western cities, even...
...available in the next two years, requires 1-2 treatments. Murphy, who recalls when the shop helped with an earlier MGH tattoo research project in exchange for beer, is not impressed. Even if the ink increased business, Murphy said, “If it looked bad on the skin, I wouldn’t use it. We’re here to make it permanent. Removal isn’t our job.” Potential tattoo-canvas Alyssa K. Davis ’09 agrees. “If I’m going to get a tattoo...
...historical memory. Lonely hearts at Harvard may take some solace in knowing that it was only through the clever machinations of Aaron Burr and Martha Washington that James Madison’s five-foot five-inch bod landed Dolley Payne, a “buxom brunette with remarkably fair skin.” The future Mrs. Madison would later spark a fashion trend as each of her dresses were “set off with ostrich plumes and feathery birds of paradise and topped those creations with matching headdresses from her collection of bright turbans and crimson caps...