Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patients with advanced cases of certain cancers of the skin, bone, lymph system, breast, lung and bladder will receive interferon at Houston's M.D. Anderson; the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in Manhattan; Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute; the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif...
...fast that, as George Kitahara puts it, "present varieties of fruit trees are obsolete before they are full grown." Consider, for instance, what scientists at the University of California at Davis are doing with the lowly tomato. They have developed a "square" tomato with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown onto cropland by sea breezes. One researcher quips...
...finally, oh finally, "Cat" Davis came jogging through the gym, stripped of her warm-up and donning her Everlast gloves. I was expecting, something like a roller derby queen, but the "Cat" was very real. She was beautiful, to begin with--in peak athletic condition with tight, firm skin and muscles; a cute, but tomboyish face under a flock of long, curly blonde hair. Her sparring partner was a short, pudgy guy--and they just goofed around for a few minutes until he plugged her good, perhaps by accident. Her smiles, those of an innocent outsider admiring the strangeness...
...ceremony was as flavorful and varied as Kenya itself. Native chieftains in python-skin and ostrich-feather robes, Indian women hi flowing, pastel-shaded saris, black and white Kenyans in khaki safari outfits or pinstripe suits crowded around the dais in Nairobi's Uhuru (freedom in Swahili) Park. Hundreds of tribal dancers in monkey-skin skirts and black feather headdresses swayed rhythmically, rattling anklets made of Coca-Cola bottletops and ululating cries of praise. Naval battalions boomed out a 21-gun salute, and there was an ear-cracking, low-flying aeronautics display by fighters of the Kenya air force...
...lasting three to four hours. The surgeon begins by making an uninterrupted incision that starts at the temple, runs down the front of the ear, under the earlobe and behind the ear. Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place. In the past few years, surgeons have expanded the technique to sometimes include...