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...Ronald Reagan greeted visitors last week, reporters glimpsed a scab on the right side of his nose. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes later explained that a dermatologist had removed a small "gathering" of skin from the President's nose two days earlier. To avoid raising new concerns about cancer, Speakes refused to use the term lump or growth, talking instead of a skin irritation that had been aggravated after the President's operation...
Vitamin E was once thought by some to be the cure for nearly everything. Observational studies suggested that moderately high doses (400 International Units, or IUs) could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia - and make your skin glow, too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits. Now comes what may be the crowning blow - at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing...
...actress for a certain kind of grownup movie, and she keeps proving why she gets those juicy roles. It's because she can do almost anything. She has a unique knack for letting a wide range of characters live inside her; they radiate through that translucent skin...
...that's not (or not only) a joke. Coulter actually favors discrimination based on skin color in airports. She argues that airports should establish a separate line for men and boys whose complexion suggests they could be from the Middle East; they would be screened more thoroughly than other passengers...
...Didn't we throw out discrimination based on skin color a long time...