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...discovery that botox can prevent migraines was a lucky accident. Plastic surgeons using diluted botulism toxin to remove wrinkles started hearing about a secondary effect. "Patients," remembers Dr. William Binder, "came back saying, 'Not only have my wrinkles disappeared, but my headaches are also gone...
Some stones are unabashedly faux, nothing more than plastic made to look like garnet or jade. But this season's top rock is genuine turquoise, valued for its warmth and earthy appeal. "It's all about the ethnic, folkloric point of view. And what says that more than turquoise?" asks Ken Downing, fashion spokesman for Neiman Marcus. "It was such a great look in the '70s, it had to come around again." And again. Word is that turquoise and other rocks will dominate the fall collections, though renewed interest in episodes of The Flintstones seems remote...
...more. A photo of a Finnish greenhouse in winter, eerily illuminated by artificial lighting, emphasizes the often uneasy relationship beween nature and agriculture. One of U.S. wheat fields prompts a refiection on agribusiness and the controversy surrounding biotechnology. Colorful bottle racks snapped in Germany bring comment about bottled water, plastic containers and the scourge of alcoholism. A shot of the world's largest offshore wind farm, in Denmark, raises the issue of fossil-fuel alternatives. A market in Kenya, where Western-donated goods are sold, illustrates the economic chasm between rich and poor nations. Arthus-Bertrand plans to work...
BOSTON—The line of stenciled dragons stretched out the door and curved around the corner. Orange plastic coolers of beer were carried into the round, red brick structure that resembled a Romanesque church—right down to the cross-shaped windows. The sign over the door read “Cyclorama...
Like echoes that will not be quieted, scenes from a war that ended nearly 30 years ago are now being replayed at the airport in Raleigh, North Carolina. Clutching white plastic bags of travel documents, bleary-eyed Montagnard refugees from the Central Highlands of Vietnam stream down the arrival-lounge escalator to be met by white-haired American ladies wearing housedresses and blowsy men waving American flags. Joyful members of North Carolina's 3,000-strong Montagnard community are on hand, as are relief workers from Lutheran Family Services who bustle about, counting heads and arranging transportation that will ferry...