Sitters who were ravishing in life look ravaged in paint, like burn victims.

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Bishop cites a 1998 medical journal that reported honey to be more effective than the silver sulfadiazine hospitals typically apply to burn victims.

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They have also been likened to permanent second-degree burn victims.

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Both games share similar trappings: hyper-graphical violence, a daunting number of burn victims, player choices that affect the outcome of the game, and a protagonist at once super-heroic and emotionally vulnerable.

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Investors should take careful notice of the field of tissue regeneration: companies like Advanced Tissue Sciences (nasdaq: ATIS - news - people ) and Organogenesis (amex: ORG - news - people ) that try to use skin stem cells to create replacement skin for burn victims.

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Some candidates for a face transplant are survivors of trauma, such as burn or accident victims, who have exhausted all other reconstructive possibilities.

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