Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next came a coat of mail in glistening silver that let a generous amount of skin go unprotected. Then came sun visors shaped like welders' helmets and oversized plastic earrings that dangled weightlessly at shoulder level...
...surprised by his sudden success: "There was a need for a new concept of feminity," he explains. "Feathers and boas have no meaning for today's woman. She needs something clean-cut and brilliant." The ideal? "A shining rubber paint that would dry into a second skin...
...only function of the hormones was to preserve her monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation-it would simply mark the end of her fertility period. But some of the hormones, especially the estrogens, fill many other biological needs. They help to keep the breasts firm and the skin supple and relatively wrinkle-free; they help keep down the level of fats in the blood and thus reduce the risk of heart attacks, and they help to keep the bones strong and hard. They have other metabolic effects as well, and some subtle influences on the emotions...
...possible and it is not right," he" declared, "to neglect a people's hopes because the ocean is vast, or their culture is alien, or their language may be strange, or their race different, or their skin another color. The economic net work of this shrinking globe is too intertwined, the political order of continents is too involved with one another, the threat of common disaster is too real for all human beings to say of Asia-or any other continent-'Yours is another sphere...
...stick-to-itiveness" as one of the prime requisites for achievement. More sophisticated researchers have kept alive the tradition of the patient scientist. Luther Burbank spent 16 years developing an edible cactus for cattle, and during his experiments, by his own estimate, had a million spines painfully pierce his skin. Dr. Selman A. Waksman and his researchers spent four years analyzing 100,000 soil microorganisms before isolating streptomycin. Today, the legendary, lonely experimenter is increasingly giving way to teams working on a variety of crash projects under the "systems approach." Not only team work but the computer is drastically hurrying...