Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, students are soaking up the rays. But many are reluctant to admit their ultra-violet activities. The few who will talk about them usually say they only went to the salons to prepare their skin for the shock of a sunny spring break after a dreary Cambridge winter. Since these people did it "for a reason," they're not ashamed...
...Cosmetically, there didn't appear to be any change in my skin's tone," he says. "It didn't give me much of a base...
...some leading thinkers. Under the influence of opium, wrote Dr. George Wood, the president of the American Philosophical Society, in 1868, "the intellectual and imaginative faculties are raised to the highest point compatible with individual capacity." Doctors began prescribing opium- based concoctions for every malady from headache to skin rash. Respectable Victorian ladies calmed their babies with narcotic potions, such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Hooper's Anodyne, the Infant's Friend. Heroin, a morphine derivative, was sold legally at the turn of the century in drugstores and by mail-order catalogs and traveling salesmen...
Cocaine first became popular in America in the late 19th century. Parke- Davis, the U.S. pharmaceutical company, sold at least 15 products with cocaine, including cigarettes, cheroots, and coca skin salve and face powder. At the time an estimated 1 in 400 Americans used opiates regularly...
...Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...