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...least dangerous because they involve only the outer, epidermal, layer of the skin, usually do not require hospitalization. Thin as a sheet of paper, the epidermis consists of about five layers of cells. The cells in the deepest layers constantly reproduce, pushing older layers to the surface, where they slough off after two weeks or so. Thus while first-degree burns appear red and swollen and are painful to the touch, they usually heal on their...
...interesting to say about her. So July's Vanity Fair has taken a unique approach: it's running a story on what it's like to photograph her. What these snaps of an unguarded, somewhat tousled Di signify, claims VF, is that the former princess is ready to slough off the old and embrace the new. Further evidence is her decision, at her son William's suggestion, to auction off some old frocks for charity on June 25. This must mean she's looking to a new post-royal life where she won't need such possessions. Alternatively, it could...
...taken by surprise this way is an Albright nightmare. The revelation came just as she was enjoying the moment she had worked for--and her parents had prepared her for--her entire life, a life spent leaving nothing to chance. "There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them," she says. She is the girl who organized her neatly underlined notes in college into 15 different colored notebooks. She rises before dawn and stays up late, reading everything. She rehearses sound bites so they sound unrehearsed. "I do not believe that...
DIED. BERYL REID, 76, British actress who won acclaim in the 1960s role of the lesbian soap-opera star in both the stage and film versions of The Killing of Sister George; in Slough, England...
Progesterone pills can be particularly hard to tolerate. Progestin is always prescribed along with estrogen for women with an intact uterus. While estrogen prompts the uterine lining to thicken, progestin signals it to stop growing and slough off; this artificial menstrual cycle seems to prevent endometrial cancer. But progestin often causes cramps, irritability and other PMS-like problems. In her 1991 book on menopause, The Silent Passage, Gail Sheehy tells how estrogen highs and progestin lows made her feel as though her body was "at war with itself for half of every month...