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Dozens of new kinds of injections, light therapies, laser resurfacing devices and innovative skin creams are available or about to hit the market. The newest selling point: shorter recovery periods, fewer visible aftereffects and, in many cases, near immediate results. "The better the techniques, the more people want them," says New York City and Miami cosmetic dermatologist Dr. Frederic Brandt. The machines used by professionals are expensive, but for dermatologists the payoff is huge: cash up front and no insurance bureaucracy to engage. "If you're really good at what you do," says La Jolla dermatologist Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick...
...Twenty years ago, these haunted houses were smaller and open for a shorter period of time, often for charity. Today, attractions in this $300 million industry require anywhere from $150,000 to $400,000 to be worth a howl. Marketing, particularly web sites, and advertising eat up a chunk of this, while sophisticated props like animatronics (robotic creatures) might run as high as $16,000 for a lifelike monster. Some places create entirely new sets each year. Some scenes take two to three years to build and can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000, according to Amber Arnett...
...another room but could not hear what was being said. After a few minutes, he was pulled up and practically dragged outside. This time he was pushed into what he thinks was the back of a van, which smelled of engine oil and urine. The second drive was shorter than the first, no more than 30 minutes. Again he was pulled out and taken into a house. The wait was longer--perhaps two hours--before he was dumped back into the van for another half-hour drive...
Altshuler’s tenure at the GSD is one of the shortest Harvard deanships in recent memory, and much shorter than the 12-year terms served by his two predecessors. Since taking office, he has boosted financial aid for students, strengthened the previously cash-strapped school’s financial position, and doubled the number of senior women faculty, according to a University statement...
...won—we were one seat up, and you look over and you hear the beep and think, I think I was a little bit ahead of their seven-seat,” junior Moritz Hafner says. “But our boat was a little bit shorter. Still, it took them more than 15 minutes to really figure it out by looking at the photo.”Only the minutest fraction of Cornell’s bow ball kept Harvard from snatching its eighth national title.“How we ended the season last year will...