Among other symptoms, meningococcal meningitis can result in a red rash which looks like red pin pricks.

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School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.

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Both Coons and Landrieu, who wore a red lapel pin reading "Joseph Kony 2012, " said their own daughters had asked them about Kony.

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Sophie's name, the sound of it in Raisele's mouth, her name said by someone who had seen her, seen her laughing and chasing the chickens, seen her in her flannel nightgown and thick socks, braids one up, one down, seen her running in the yard, ducking Lev Pin-sky's dry red paw.

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The best of these carvings have a joyful exuberance, with carved tulips, hearts, animals, or fruit, rhinestones, gold paint, red velvet- lined drawers with secret compartments and pin-release locks.

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Gianni Versace's safety-pin dress practically made Elizabeth Hurley a household name in 1994, and the red harness gown that Hilary Rhoda wore in the Dior 2007 haute couture show also on display certainly turned heads.

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