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...designed to ease muscles sore from sports and heavy lifting, says Spa Finder president Susie Ellis. Spa Toccare at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., features a Yo' Rock Facial ($150 for 50 minutes), which offers cleansing and exfoliation with products specifically designed for men's skin, and a barbershop with a pool table and leather lounge chairs...
Hardy and plentiful as they seem, frogs are actually very frail things, with a semipermeable skin that leaves them vulnerable to even the slightest hiccup in their environment. So when entire species of brightly colored harlequin frogs started dying off in the cloud forests of Central and South America about 25 years ago, scientists suspected that something in the amphibians' ecosystems--they weren't sure what--had gone awry...
...Quick and polychromatic, the frogs spend their days near stream banks, where their constant motion and vibrant hues make it easy for researchers to count them. Previous studies have shown that it's not heat alone that kills harlequins but also a pathogen--the chytrid fungus--that attacks their skin. The chytrid is actually a cool-weather organism, doing best at temperatures from 63°F to 77°F. Paradoxically, an effect of global warming is to increase cloud cover in the tropical forests, lowering daytime temperatures and making the frogs more vulnerable to fungal assault...
...METHOD: HUMAN-CELL CULTURE Virus is killed and processed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Cell --> Virus is grown in human-cell culture --> Vaccine GENETIC METHOD: DNA VACCINES Plasmid is manufactured, purified and painted onto gold particles Virus --> Viral RNA --> Microscopic gold particles --> Gene gun shoots particles into the skin...
...Prized Paleness Alex Perry's letter from Bombay, "Could You Please Make Me a Shade Lighter?" [Dec. 5], reported that the desire for a lighter skin color is a national obsession in India. But Indians are not the only people who view fair skin as an ideal. It is no secret that many throughout the world feel the same way. Indeed, most of mankind does. Some of us as children were exposed to fairy tales like Snow White, in which the wicked queen asks, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Nizam Virmani Rolling Meadows...