Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blights on his happy childhood seem small, but, Updike argues, they inexorably determined the life he would lead. As a boy, he developed psoriasis and a sporadic stammer; he could savor reality's entrancing parade but never feel comfortable joining it himself. The recurring rashes on his skin kept him apart, drove his attention inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows...
...indisputable. Strong evidence of the effect emerged in 1985, when British researchers announced the existence of a seasonal "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That was worrisome: ozone between ten miles and 30 miles up absorbs the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which has been linked to cataracts, skin cancers and weakened immune systems in humans and other animals, as well as to damage to plants. Data-gathering flights in the Antarctic in 1987 made the connection between CFCs and ozone destruction all but certain. After a similar expedition through Arctic skies last month, scientists said conditions are ripe...
...inspection an airplane can in fact last forever." Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz could have been speaking for the entire airline industry when he delivered that traditional wisdom to a gathering of aviation experts in Washington last month. But just two days later, a cargo door and part of the skin tore away from a 19-year-old Boeing 747 shortly after it left Hawaii, sucking nine passengers from the plane. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of the failure, but they have focused on the possibility of a faulty door lock...
...investor, who showed up to meet his adviser in person. He was "visibly shaken," Grigsby recalls. Not long afterward, the client asked for another broker. "It didn't take an Einstein to figure out what that meant," says Grigsby. Then he shrugs. "You have to develop a thick skin. You can't bleed to death every time something like that happens...
...Daminozide (trade name: Alar), a chemical that is used chiefly on red apples and that penetrates the fruit's skin, is the greatest cancer hazard. The NRDC predicts that daminozide use may cause one case of cancer for every 4,200 preschoolers. Though the percentage of children affected -- 0.024% -- is minute, the risk is 240 times the standard considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency -- one case of cancer per million...