Worms can get through the intestinal wall and move around under skin tissues.

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"The first several layers of the skin are like a castle wall protecting the athlete from outside marauders, " Adams says.

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When a stray bomb hit the south wall of the citadel, sending up clouds of smoke and ash and shattering bits of rubble into his skin, his heart should have stopped.

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Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.

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