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...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...
Despite such doubts, domes are mushrooming in a dizzying array of skins-from the wood and metal favored by kit manufacturers to brick, stone, cement and plastic. Kahn has experimented with domes of plywood walls insulated with nitrogen-filled vinyl pillows, aluminum frames covered with Plexiglas, and wood covered with burlap then sprayed with quick-hardening plastic foam. Perhaps the most interesting new project is one involving the use of Mylar plastic film coated so that one side reflects light while the other is transparent. Outsiders thus see only an opaque dome, but those inside have an unobstructed view...
...year on ads aimed mainly at Procter & Gamble's throwaway Pampers, which enjoyed a lion's share of the estimated $200 million market last year. "If you were a baby," goes one sample ad, "what would you want to wear-soft, cuddly cotton or stiff and sticky plastic and paper?" The pitch stresses that cloth diapers, unlike disposables, are reusable, a point bolstered by New York City hospitals, which complain that the disposal of plastic-lined diapers-either by burning or dumping-adds to the city's pollution. All this may seem regressive to young mothers...
Department stores, too, tried to soothe customers' fears. "Relax-D Day will be easy in Selfridges," proclaimed huge posters in every window. Harrods hired pretty girls in boaters and D Day sashes to counsel customers. Tea towels, mugs, pens and pencils, plastic shopping bags, watch straps and playing cards came out imprinted with conversion tables. To help matters considerably, an anonymous genius began spreading it around that if any sum expressed in shillings and old pennies were simply.,divided by two with the dividing stroke omitted, the result would be the new penny equivalent. Thus, 6/ 4d. became...
...fact is that though he tries all these things and does most of them well, this is no Horatio Alger story. Because in the end all the Indians are dead and Jack Crabb is going to die in an old-age home, surrounded by plastic and human garbage...