Word: skins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upon whose shoulders the final choice falls. Her loneliness grows as she considers the prospect of living out Berenger's deranged dream of resistance. Looking out in all directions at the sea of rhinoceroses, she says sadly, "Those, those are people. They look happy. They feel good in their skin. They don't seem crazy. They're very natural. They had reasons to change." When Berenger's hysteria has moved him to hit her, with the rhinoceroses singing to her through the windows, she quietly walks out into the sea of green backs and horns...
Parents who slather sun creams on their children often overestimate how much the lotions will protect against harmful rays. As a result, the kids stay outdoors longer, leading to an increase in moles. These growths are the main predictor of skin cancers like melanoma, which accounted for 41,600 new cases this year and 80% of all skin-cancer deaths...
...HOLE Celebrity Skin (DGC) Much has been made of bandleader/provocateur Courtney Love's musical makeover. Her group's previous albums were raw and ragged, but this latest release is shiny and sometimes slick. Still, bleached hair has dark roots: beneath the polite production, this CD boasts galvanizing moments of rude, undeniable beauty...
Blood simple! The FDA last week okayed Lasette, a portable laser device that enables diabetics to draw blood easily, with little or no pain. Many patients test their blood-glucose levels every day--in some cases 10 times--by pricking their skin with a razor-sharp steel lancet. By contrast Lasette sends a beam of light that vaporizes skin and creates a tiny hole so quickly--30 millionths of a second--it's barely felt. Cost...
...that he did not lie in any of his testimony. That, of course, would be the ultimate irony: that this man, who has been know to closely shave the truth, would not be able to say something that he believed to be a lie -- even to save his own skin...