Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold front was moving down the Florida peninsula, pushing showers ahead of it. While rain does not hamper takeoffs by airplanes, its impact on a space shuttle at the speeds it reaches shortly after lift-off could damage the heat-resistant tiles that protect the craft's thin skin. Challenger would not blast off even into a drizzle...
...zombie drug, resembling dry black dirt, contains toads, sea worms, lizards, tarantulas, and human bones. When rubbed on someone's skin, (as the Haitian masseuse did to Duke), the victim becomes nauseous and begins to have breathing difficulties in a number of hours. Following a pins and needles sensation, the victim becomes paralyzed, his lips turning blue from lack of oxygen. Soon, his metabolism is so low that his condition is indistinguishable from death...
...course, Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue. It is also racist and sexist. And once a year, it turns America's finest sports publication into a skin...
...Skin sells. Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione could tell you that. But Sports Illustrated is different--so its publishers say. "If we'd wanted to go girlie, I could have given you 34 pages of nudity," managing editor Mark Mulvoy told USA Today, his comment revealing an all too familiar mixture of bravado and sexism. Managing pimp Mulvoy's macho boast should read: if I'd wanted to, I could have ordered those women to disrobe in front of the camera. Now that's exploitation, right Mark? And hey, its all a matter of money anyway...
...clear glass faceshield kept his skin from actually touching the ice, but Fusco had fallen on his face...