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A Touch of Sensitivity
How do you feel about touching? Our skin contains five million touch cells, but what are they for and how important are they to us? There is evidence that premature babies do better lying on lambs-wool than on cotton sheets and that heart patients do better if they keep pets. Bizarre experiments in phone booths and public libraries provide further evidence of the power of touch.
(Shou'n last Monday

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