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...happens to every medical student sooner or later. You get a cough that persists for a while or feel a funny pain in the stomach or notice a tiny lump under the skin. Ordinarily, you would just ignore it--but now, armed with your rapidly growing store of medical knowledge, you can't help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign of lung cancer. A twinge might be internal bleeding. The lump is probably a lymph node--but is it bigger than it should be? Could it be Hodgkin's disease...
...against England. It's been suggested that as he was performing the pregame Maori war-dance, the haka, his opposite that day, Rory Underwood - in a moment of folly - enraged Lomu by winking at him. It's history that Lomu went on to score four tries - and Underwood lost skin and pride in various futile attempts to stop him. A kidney ailment will keep Lomu out of the Cup, but the All Blacks have a new generation of Goliaths in the current squad, men like Tana Umaga and Brad Thorn...
...Nepal, showing skin is not appreciated,” she says. “Here, people wear the bare minimum...
Former Miss Americas pass by, valiant and coiffed. Last year’s queen, Erika Harold, towers in a skin-tight American-flag getup, surrounded by red, white and blue potted silk flowers. Miss Florida shakes her fake-fur stole, dripping with plastic oranges...
Gray is the kind of gentle, studious girl you might pass in your House every day without getting to know. Academically brilliant, she wrote her biology thesis on skin cancer research and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. She’s truly passionate about music: she was the concertmaster of the Bach Society at Harvard, won numerous prizes for her violin playing, and was involved in both the HARMONY and MIHNUET community service programs. Friends say they never saw her in anything but a t-shirt, jeans and no makeup until she became involved in pageants...