Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when there is a problem, Harvard's typical first reaction is to save its own skin, at the expense of an organization it has worked over the past century to establish in the community. Instead, University Hall relegated the problem to Frank Rose--the administrator made famous when he implemented a new time-table for shuttle buses one week before he was supposed to, wreaking havoc among Quad students trying to make it to class. Is a foul-up this big really a problem for shuttle bus managers, or for more experienced--and more higly placed--officials...
...lawyer accused her of concocting the tale in exchange for $10,000 from the News, Coghlan burst out, "You are a liar." At one point, after Coghlan testified that the man she said was Archer had had a pimply back, Mrs. Archer forthrightly declared that her husband possessed "excellent skin." Archer, who did not show his back as evidence, testified that he spent the evening in question dining at a fashionable Mayfair restaurant named Le Caprice. Even the judge seemed sympathetic to the plaintiff, instructing the jurors to think carefully whether Archer was "in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated...
Prostate cancer is the third most common cancer in men, after skin cancer and lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. About one of 11 men will develop prostate cancer at some point in his life, the society says...
...reclassification of the alligator, however, is a true victory. Twenty years ago, the toothy reptiles had been so assiduously hunted, says FWS Director Frank Dunkle, "that many believed the species would never recover." Skin-seeking poachers had killed the animals by the tens of thousands. In 1966 Congress passed the first of the Endangered Species Acts, which banned hunting any animal at risk of elimination over a major part of its range. Such legislation was spectacularly successful for the gators, thanks in large part to the FWS agents who enforced...
Some of North's deceptions were neither humorous nor motivated by lofty concerns about saving anything but his own skin. He admitted taking "hundreds of pages" of papers and many of his spiral-bound notebooks out of secure NSC offices to his home in suburban Great Falls, Va. Noting that North had complained about the lack of security at his house, Liman asked why he would do this. Back came the up-front answer: "To protect myself...