Word: skins
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...moon--ice that could help a community of astronauts survive. Almost lost in the excitement was news from a far more distant and far wetter world. According to the crispest images yet from the Galileo Jupiter probe, there is more reason than ever to think that beneath the icy skin of the Jovian moon Europa there lies a warm, amniotic sea in which heat, moisture and organic chemicals may have already allowed life to take hold...
...evidence comes from a Europa flyby in which Galileo barnstormed the little moon at an altitude of just a few hundred miles. Soaring over a region known as the Conamara Chaos, the spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being...
TAKING A SHOT AT CANCER A vaccine that doctors custom-make for each patient may be able to treat the deadly skin cancer melanoma. In two early studies, the inoculation generated immune cells that attacked cancerous tumors, in many cases shrinking them...
TIME emphatically agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME's phrase but the factual report of typical angry reactions documented by correspondents all over the U.S. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
Mike Manning, an attorney handling a $20 million lawsuit for the family of the man who died in the restraining chair, is less of an Arpaio critic than you might guess. Get tough on crime? Fine with him. Why should inmates have cigarettes, coffee and skin magazines? The problem with Arpaio, the lawyer says, is that by publicly expressing glee over the suffering of inmates, "you're saying to your employees that they have a license to brutalize...