Duct tape, warts and all
Duct tape brings out our inventive, slightly kooky side. People use it to make everything from wallets to fake roses. In a brief ramble around the Internet, we stumbled on a Web site running a contest for the best prom outfit made out of the stuff.
Given this versatility, it wasn't so surprising when a group of doctors in Ohio reported that duct tape could get rid of warts. Their study showed that covering warts with duct tape was a lot more effective than cryotherapy, an accepted treatment that involves freezing warts with liquid nitrogen. It was just the kind of offbeat finding that launches a thousand headlines.
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