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...glowing popularity of wood-burning stoves may be bringing back a skin complaint virtually unknown in the U.S. since the arrival of central heating: erythema abigne, literally redness of the skin from fire. Dermatologists warn that prolonged or repeated exposure to intense heat can cause permanent web-patterned skin discolorations, ranging in shade from pink to brown. (Habitual use of very hot water bottles and heating pads can lead to the same problem.) Dr. Stephen Stone of Springfield, Ill., had one patient whose upper back, shoulder to shoulder, was crisscrossed by marks resulting from sitting too near a wood-burning...
...soon as he knew that Troy had fallen, Polymestor murdered the boy and took the gold. Unknown to him, the sea-rotted corpse has drifted to shore and is dumped before Hecuba's gaze. She is past weeping by now. She wants the gift of death, surcease from all sorrow. But she has a priority: vengeance. Before the final curtain, Polymestor lurches forward on all fours, his eye sockets craters of streaming blood. He utters the primal howl that punctuates these plays. It is the moment when all reason has toppled and the dogs of fate rend man with...
...NOTEBOOK: Dave Coatsworth, who played on McLaughlin's squad, came close to collecting a trip to Bermuda, narrowly missing his half-court bomb in the "Bermuda Shoot." ... Cheer of the night after Oliver finally missed a shot, "Ha, ha, he's human." ... The time of the game and an unknown opponent combined to make this the smallest IAB crowd of the year, generously estimated...
...people in the embassy. As a result, almost all the campesinos, the two Guatemalan dignitaries and two embassy staffers were burned alive. The Spanish Ambassador and one campesino, Gregoria Yuga Xona, managed to escape. The next day Xona was kidnaped from his hospital bed by a group of unknown armed...
Still, it is possible that the '80s are going to demand some virtues unknown in the '60s and '70s-self-control, selfdiscipline, stoicism, decorum, even inhibition and a little puritanism. It may be time for a touch of reticence. Coercion cannot produce such attitudes, but the mood of the time may. Americans may find themselves agreeing in some paraphrase of Elihu Root when he walked through a squalid Siberian village as Woodrow Wilson's emissary in the first Soviet revolutionary dawn. "I'm a firm his in democracy," he said, as he skeptically eyed...