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  • But Stephanides says that no one has studied them in thefield.

    How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006

  • "Once urushiol haspenetrated deep inside your skin," says Stephanides, "it takes a weekor longer for your immune system to eliminate it."

    How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006

  • "Everynow and then," says Stephanides, "we see a patient who lathers himselfup with calamine, then takes a high dose of Benadryl orally, and ends up havinga toxic reaction from this combination."

    How to Treat (and Avoid) Poison Ivy and Other Toxic Plants 2006

  • Stephanides most recently served as an administrator for the U.N. Security Council.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2005 2005

  • I had to shout from the sidelines of my being, “Heads up, Stephanides!”

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Discreetly, Miss Marsh now draws a tiny “5” next to “Stephanides” and circles it.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Even back then the Great Books were working on me, silently urging me to pursue the most futile human dream of all, the dream of writing a book worthy of joining their number, a one hundred and sixteenth Great Book with another long Greek name on the cover: Stephanides.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Stephanides, an American, grandchild of Greeks, admires this Turkish immigrant to Germany, this Gastarbeiter, as he bakes bread on Hauptstrasse here in the year 2001.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • Desdemona, with her sad eyes, her face of a girl forced to grow up too fast, worried with her beads like all the Stephanides men before and after her (right down to me, if I count).

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

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