Supplement: More Than Skin Deep :The Scientist [2007-05-01]


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Supplement: More Than Skin Deep Scott Steele, the 32-year-old managing director of the Classical Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon, still remembers a trip to a hair salon as a teenager. The hairdresser took one look at the psoriasis outbreak on his scalp and forehead and actually backed away. Even after Steele explained that it wasn't contagious, the woman refused to cut his hair. Interactions like that surely contributed to