He told reporters how the color of his skin kept him out of tennis games as a boy in Richmond.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The Skin Cancer Foundation says use of tanning beds in youth increases a person's risk of developing melanoma by seventy-five percent.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Bill invented the method of using a hot branding iron to permanently put the mark of a ranch on a cow's skin.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

In 1912, he began to study a skin disease that was killing thousands of people in the South.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

These marks on the skin can also be a sign of another form of lupus called systemic lupus.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

They can develop as flat, discolored areas of skin or as raised growths, often with a rough surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Mister Opiang also placed a computer chip into the skin of the animals for identification purposes.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

Melanomas can appear even in areas of skin that do not get a lot of sun.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Put a thick amount of sunscreen on all areas of skin exposed to the sun.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

They may have a high body temperature and some areas of skin may turn red.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Another report suggests that driving a vehicle on its left side increases the risk of developing skin cancer on the left side of the body.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

And unlike a machine, the skin-to-skin contact provides two kinds of warmth physical and emotional.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

It usually first grows in a mole, a small dark area of skin.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

He recently led a study of nearly nine hundred skin cancer patients.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

So does a family history of skin cancer.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

"This is absolutely unbelievable situation where a terrorist group holds a large number of hostages to demand a cease-fire to save its own skin."

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"The puffy lips is the worst," casting director Keith Wolfe doesn't like seeing actors whose skin is either too taut or swollen with filler as a result of the surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"He was not proud to be a black one," "And as a black one,as an African, I can advise other Africans and other blacks to be proud of their skin."

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Beautiful? This is the skin of a killer, Bella.

VOA: standard.other

When one imagines that a talent that great and a person with that much inner and outer beauty could have had obstacles simply because of the color of her skin, it makes me weep."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15