Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skin-Saving.. "How a prince answers the big political question," cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Neville, "depends on whether he is a big 21-gun-salute* prince who thinks that when the British leave he can rule his own roost alone, whether he is a pro-Pakistan prince, whether he is an anti-Pakistan prince, or whether he is the type of prince who believes that Congress is going to be all-powerful in the new India and hence thinks he had better get on the Congress bandwagon...
Heading the bandwagon faction last week was His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session...
...decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop was in the types of cancer-skin, mouth, stomach, uterus-on which surgeons can operate if they are detected early...
Keloids. The most mysterious delayed effect was a peculiar kind of scar that formed on the skin of burned survivors. Many months after their burns (from The Bomb's terrific heat and ultraviolet radiation) had healed, victims still had raised, flat patches of thick scar tissue, sometimes covering the whole face or back. These scars'("keloids"), ranging in color from pink to brown, were often extremely sensitive to the touch...
Most of the scars seemed to result from the patients' burns, but there were puzzling exceptions: when a skin graft was taken from an unburned part of a patient's body, a keloid often developed there too. Could the victims' exposure to fission products-neutrons, gamma" rays, etc.-have something to do with it? The doctors did not know for certain, but they suspected that keloids might be ugly forerunners of cancer...