Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wildcats tried to gain a psychological advantage over the Crimson by shaving down and wearing skin suits for yesterday's meet. Harvard dulled the "double edge," however, with record-breaking performances in the opening two events of the program...
...restoration was attempted as early as 1597 by the Bolognese surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi, who grafted attached flaps of the patient's own skin and thus evaded the body's rejection mechanism more than three centuries before this phenomenon was scientifically understood. Such procedures were declared impious and were forbidden. More recent restoration efforts, using metal ear molds or dead cartilage, have produced poor results in many cases, although silicones have been employed successfully...
...long, taken from the patient's own ribs. This causes no disability. While an assistant closes the chest wound, Brent carves and molds the cartilage into an approximation of the ultimate desired shape for the new ear. Then he makes a pocket from the skin where the ear should be and slips the cartilage into...
...outweigh any known disadvantages. ∙ ∙ ∙ Jogger's kidney is not the only problem plaguing those involved in the great American running boom. An even more exotic ailment is "jogger's nipples," an irritation caused by the rubbing of a runner's shirt against skin. This condition, which afflicts not only women who jog braless but also men, can be prevented by covering the nipples with Band-Aids before a long run or by coating them liberally with petroleum jelly to reduce friction. Failure to take such precautions can leave the nipples raw. bleeding and quite...
...Because of the color of the skin...