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...writing this while lolling around a pool in the Bahamas. Yes, I know you think I've got a cushy job. But that's nothing compared with Remar Sutton's. You know -- the fat, bald 45-year-old guy who decided to chuck it all, move to an island and dedicate a year of his life to becoming a hunk. He's been chronicling his progress in a series of wry letters appearing in scores of newspapers, but maybe you haven't been reading them. My friends find his quest both repellent (classic male vanity) and intriguing (classic male fantasy...
...turnout at last week's Food and Drug Administration hearing was unusually large, with many a gleaming pate to be seen in the crowd. The subject of discussion: minoxidil (brand name: Rogaine), the Upjohn Co. preparation that has given new hope to the balding and new vigor to the company's stock. Originally marketed as a treatment for hypertension, minoxidil, in liquid form, was found by 48% of the men in an Upjohn study to produce "moderate-to- dense" hair growth if applied twice daily. Dermatologist Robert Stern, who headed an FDA advisory panel reviewing the drug, finds this...
Consider: the first act, which the libretto says should take place before the walls of the Imperial Palace in Peking, is set instead in a realistic city of huddled rooftops that stretch away into the distance. Strutting mandarins, bald monks and muscled executioners lord it over a teeming, gray-clad, downtrodden citizenry. The bloodthirsty Turandot's entrance is made aboard a golden, curtained pleasure pavilion that rises above the city like a ghostly apparition...
Mikhail Gorbachev's message was stunningly simple. If Washington would remove all of its medium-range missiles from Europe, Moscow would do the same. Ronald Reagan's response was no less bald: he promised to "seize this new opportunity" by presenting his Administration's own plan for a missile-free Europe. With those two moves, arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which have been stalled since last October's superpower summit in Reykjavik, suddenly took off like a racing car at Le Mans. For the first time since the grimaces and recriminations of that meeting...
...wear their hair too long or else it would fall in the soup at exclusive dining clubs they attended. The salient features of this hairdo is that it reveals enough of the forehead to make its wearer look bookish, but not so much that people think he's bald...