• Bob's integrity was absolute--he was as hard on Republicans as he was on Democrats--and thankfully he possessed a skin of armor.

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  • Highlights: truffle surprise (a nugget of pt de foie gras, wrapped in a glistening skin of shredded black truffle, nested in a ball of gele), and one of the most mouth-wateringly delicious chocolate souffls ever served in a New York restaurant.

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  • Like Q, Mendez has a collection of gadgets -- among them, a skin mole that carries a piece of espionage equipment called a bullet lens, and a coat on which one button is the lens to a concealed camera.

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  • With their new laser in hand, Dr Leitgeb and his colleagues set up an experiment that let them test the system on a range of skin conditions, including a healthy human palm, allergy-induced eczema on the forearm, inflammation of the forehead, and two previously diagnosed cases of basal-cell carcinoma.

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  • These can be as tiny as a millionth the size of a grain of salt which can amount to as little as a few cells of skin or sweat left in a fingerprint.

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  • Soon, however, she became aware that there was "a lot of skin-bleaching going on", a trend she found "alarming" and something that is common in much of Africa.

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  • The result is a spectrum of skin colour rather than a dichotomy.

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  • Going a step better, Millennium and Becton, Dickinson will soon introduce a test to predict which cases of melanoma, a nasty form of skin cancer, will metastasize.

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  • You can tell a guy has raced before when you see him whip out a tube of super glue to stick a flap of skin back onto his foot.

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  • And so part of this job is having a thick skin and understanding that a lot of this stuff is not personal.

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  • When it arrived in America it was detected within months thanks to the vigilance of the country's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in noticing clusters of a previously rare skin cancer that is often a symptom of immune-system collapse.

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  • Each had a patch of skin on one arm shaved, marked with a pen and surrounded by petroleum jelly (to fence the bed bugs in), and a commensurate patch on the other marked and surrounded, but not shaved.

    ECONOMIST: Body hair

  • Before he starts he must put on two sets of protective clothing, four pairs of gloves and a helmet with breathing apparatus, all of which is taped up so that not a particle of skin is exposed.

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  • In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises: a material attachable to skin, the material capable of detecting a magnetic field and transferring a perceivable stimulus to the skin, wherein the perceivable stimulus relates to the magnetic field.

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  • Each joint was crowned with a little gray stone of skin, and each heel was like the battered end of a club.

    NEWYORKER: Naima

  • The results have a "double significance, " she said, since the reduced skin damage from UV rays also translates to a lower risk of skin cancer.

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  • Two wooden blocks, as any toddler knows, work fine as a percussion instrument, and give any Neanderthal half a gourd and a bit of animal skin and you've got a proto-Ringo.

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  • Chakalis later developed a constellation of ailments including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a life-threatening skin condition that can be caused by a variety of drugs including Provigil.

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  • It can even be deadly, as it can cause a number of skin infections.

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  • In 1969 at my high school sports physical exam, I discovered that I had melanoma, a form of skin cancer.

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  • Also in the cancer cluster were squamous cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, and throat cancer, but these had fewer genetic links between them.

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  • He does have a lot of skin in the game, though.

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  • Like that time in early 2007, just three months after they launched Yes To, a maker of skin and hair care products formulated from organically grown fruits and vegetables.

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  • The memo states that in its relatively short time on the market, there have been seven reports of deaths as a result of skin reactions to Bextra.

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  • He was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer in 1997 and has been part of four different drug trials at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in Glasgow.

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  • Phase 2 testing of elesclomol resulted in surprising data indicating that the compound might be an effective treatment for metastatic melanoma, a form of skin cancer that was notoriously resistant to treatment.

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  • Lenny emphatically doesn't count the teenyboppers - fans of things shiny who are bent on showing a maximum of skin - that constitute the core customer base for so many other Brazilian swimwear brands.

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  • Investors originally expected the Food and Drug Administration to approve Galvus by Nov. 30 of last year, but the FDA delayed its decision by three months in order to further scrutinize a series of skin reactions seen in primates who had received the drug.

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  • First came the remarkable work of Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University, who showed it was possible, by activating just four genes, to take a mature cell (he used a bit of skin but other cells would work) and turn it into the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell with the potential to become any other cell in the body of mouse or human.

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  • Mitalipov's breakthrough was the result of merging skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed.

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