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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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How wigs help children handle hair loss

For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.

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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching

Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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  • A vase (bell-krater) painted with three young man wearing robes, two of them holding staffs. Engraving, 17--.
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.
  • A young woman wearing a plain robe and a tasselled hat, standing in front of a painted screen.
  • A well dressed couple with their eldest daughter in graduation robes and their two younger children: benefits of family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Health Education Unit Abeokuta, ca. 2000.
  • Epithelial cell sloughing off
  • Type I collagen with proteoglycans
  • Migratory phagocytic cell in the cornea
  • Herpes simplex viruses in cell nucleus
  • Fungal infection after corneal graft
  • Collagen fibrils with proteoglycans
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