Word: layer
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Most Surprising Taint Pristine Minnesota was sullied by a thin layer of political grime. In July, Republican David Durenberger was denounced by the Senate for unethical conduct. Three months later, G.O.P. candidate Jon Grunseth abandoned the gubernatorial race after charges arose that he had skinny-dipped with teenage girls nine years...
...method is disarmingly simple. Doctors spread a thin layer of the ointment over the wounded area with a tongue depressor and keep the skin completely covered until it heals. So far, the treatment has been used on 50,000 burn patients in China and on several hundred elsewhere. Xu and colleagues traveled to Thailand last month to help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment...
...Gaia, the Growth of an Idea (St. Martin's Press; $19.95). Joseph goes to great lengths to characterize the importance of Gaia, but where necessary he holds Lovelock to account. Lovelock was the first scientist to propose that chemical aerosols called CFCs might pose a threat to the ozone layer, but his faith in the restorative powers of Gaia led him to downplay the danger...
...even some of those celebrating the warmth expressed concerns about the environmental origins of the freakish weather. "Something's not right," said Dana Embrose, an employee of Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream. "It's the ozone layer or something...I don't know...
...voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including a ban on cancer-causing pesticides, a phase-out of chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and creation of an oil-spill cleanup fund...