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...probably have scabies right now. Burn all clothes and sheets immediately, including your roommate’s—he won’t mind, considering you’re saving him from infestation. Stop by UHS to pick up tubes of ointment. Anonymous brown paper bag head-coverlet optional. Orange (High): A big party weekend means high risk for burrowing mites. Hire a bouncer for your party to screen all freshmen from Pennypacker from possibly infiltrating your scabies-free environment. Now might be a good time to invest in a biohazard suit. Yellow (Elevated): Moderate chance. Stay in your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scabies Watch! | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...1900s China 1936 coverlet for bound foot; some were 3 in. long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Aquino was furious. She herded a score of local reporters into her bedroom and lifted the quilted coverlet of her bed to reveal a carpet-to-mattress wooden base. "It is impossible for me to hide under my bed," said the President. Perhaps hoping to give Beltran a sleepless night or two, she filed a libel suit against him. Besieged by leftist and rightist rebels as well as by a rumormongering press, Aquino last week explicitly raised the possibility of declaring martial law if needed "for the greater good of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Politics Makes Strange Beds | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Burnout of a Revolution | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...visit the pagoda-like structure on Tian'anmen Square that contains the earthly remains of Mao Tse-tung. Inside the air-conditioned mausoleum they divided into two columns and filed past the crystal case in which the embalmed body of the Great Helmsman reposes under a coverlet of red satin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Lowering Mao | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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