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Subject: Does cutting hair, or shaving a beard, make it grow faster? If so, why?

Date: Fri Feb 20 13:53:53 1998
Posted by Eva Valenti
Grade level: K-3
School: Discovery Center School
City: San Francisco State/Province: CA
Country: U.S.A.
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 888004433.Me
Message:

You always hear that cutting hair makes it grow faster. But how does 
the root of the hair know what is happening at the tip? Same with a 
beard.


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