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...idea seems as silly as selling caviar at Burger King. Yet for four foolish years, France's Societe Bic, maker of disposable pens, razors and cigarette lighters, sought to extend its throwaway empire to the epitome of upscale sophistication: French perfume and cologne. The company introduced low-budget plastic atomizers for men and women at newsstands, hair salons and gas stations across Europe and the U.S. Multimillion-dollar ad campaigns touted Bic fragrances as "the naked perfume" and "Paris in your pocket...
...THERAPY CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY, the saddest child brought in one morning is three-year-old Felicia, a small bundle of bones in a pink dress, whose plastic hearing aids keep falling off, tangling with her gold earrings. She is ( deaf, and doctors are not sure how much she can see. She functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax...
...rate, saving him $11,000 a year. Amex also offered him $6,000 of advertising as part of a new nationwide program to rouse diners out of the doldrums. DiFillippo says his complaints to American Express went unheeded until a local newspaper pictured him attacking the plastic card with a butcher knife. That apparently hit a nerve at other restaurants as well, several of which have dropped the card. Now DiFillippo feels vindicated. "We won!" he exults. "They were so arrogant. Now they're actually listening. It is a great victory for us." Says American Express vice president Lawrence Kurlander...
Scientology is now run by David Miscavige, 31, a high school dropout and second-generation church member. Defectors describe him as cunning, ruthless and so paranoid about perceived enemies that he kept plastic wrap over his glass of water. His obsession is to attain credibility for Scientology in the 1990s. Among other tactics, the group...
...however, surgeons are trying to put the potential risks in perspective. Dr. Norman Cole of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons is referring his patients to last week's statement by the FDA, which asserts that the potential risk of these implants is "certainly too small" to warrant having them removed. Says Emory's Dr. Hester: "Women need to know that they are not walking around with time bombs in their breasts." With any luck, the final FDA report will defuse their anxiety...