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...best loot is hidden in the back, past the seahorse skeletons and powdered pangolin. From inside a rusted safe, shopkeeper Zhu fishes out a bundle of cloth and unwraps a precious amber-streaked crescent. "Rhino horn," he whispers. "Straight from Africa...
Cosmetic companies usually love to trumpet their "miracle" ingredients. But placenta--the embryonic tissue formed in pregnant mammals and used for decades as a wrinkle reducer--is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: Mila Skin Care's new Amber Cream Placental has become a hot seller by proudly promoting the taboo ingredient. A 59-year-old aesthetician in Beverly Hills, Calif., says she gave up Botox injections a month after she started using the skin smoother. "The lines are just staying away," she says...
...Today it is vital as an emulsifier and suspension agent in soft drinks and candy bars and as a stabilizer in cosmetics and newspaper ink. Scientists have yet to find or invent an exact alternative to the amber-like substance, so products such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Minute Maid rely on imports from Sudan, which supplies more than 80% of the world market...
...Education of Max Bickford. She plays a gay woman; he plays a straight professor. We'll see how they fare, but the network wins hands down for its lavish party at Tavern on the Green, where ad execs nibble prawns and mash up next to Survivor 2's Amber Brkich to pose for Polaroids. No mangrove worms, alas...
...Eastern Baltic, for instance, foragers traded seal fat, amber, slate and flint for the farmers' pottery and grain. In coastal regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...