Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both men proposed to live in the upper levels of the station...
Second- and third-degree burns, the kind treated by the New York team, call for much more care and, often, extended hospital stays. Penetrating below the epidermis, second-degree burns reach into the upper layer of the dermis, a thin layer of cells 1 to 3 mm thick that contains blood vessels, nerves, hair follicles and sweat glands. This upper portion can slowly regenerate and heal if damaged. But if the burn is third degree and destroys the dermis down to fat and muscle, skin grafts are needed for effective healing...
...need to balance these concerns when both time and care are critical was evident to TIME reporter Alice Park, who observed members of the New York Hospital-Cornell burn team as they attended a 26-year-old woman who had been terribly burned on her face and upper torso by acid thrown on her by her male companion's former girlfriend...
NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT Doctors write as many as 12 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions yearly for colds, upper-respiratory-tract infections and bronchitis. The drugs do little or nothing to fight the viral illnesses...
Sounds like a progressive private girls' academy on the Upper East Side of Manhattan or a boarding school in New Hampshire? Not quite. This is the Young Women's Leadership School, and it is a public school in East Harlem. Opened last year in an effort to boost girls' confidence and to provide a supportive and challenging academic environment, the experimental charter school on 106th Street should be reveling in its success. The school admitted 55 seventh-grade girls for the year 1996-97 and it re-opened its doors this September to 165 girls in the seventh through...