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...often in a week) with the newer Erbium lasers, which are cooler and can be used on the thinner surface of the neck and chest as well as the face, as long as the doctor exercises caution. Yet even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse, up to 20% of CO2-laser patients (and possibly some Erbium ones as well) risk ending up with whitened skin one to two years after the procedure, according to Dr. Jay Burns, a laser specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical...
...doctor, recommendations from previous patients are a better guide than come-on advertisements. "Very intelligent people make poor decisions when choosing a physician for plastic surgery," says Dr. Tina Alster, a Washington dermatologist known as Dr. Fix It, who sees an average of two patients a week with laser-burn scars. "They believe all those hideous commercials." Finally, make sure the doctor is doing the work, not an aesthetician...
...There are people in Congress who get themselves re-elected time after time by not being controversial," he said. "Media attention is a double-edged sword....and the brightest stars burn out faster...
...three to eight and participation in standardized national math and science tests - a big footprint of federal interference that orthodox Republicans abhor. Bush, however, figures that a bit of Big Brother can be useful, and he figures parents, who tend to put their kids? futures ahead of slash-and-burn ideology, feel the same way. To win, Bush?d have to run to the center anyway - he?s just starting early. If his colleagues are smart, they'll do what the Democrats did in '96: Keep quiet and enjoy the ride...
...irony of insurance is that mostly it protects against things we can control but not against things we can't control. Whoops! Burn down the manse with an unattended iron, and the typical policy covers you. But if heavy rain overwhelms a storm sewer that backs up into your home or business and destroys all, well, sorry. Claims adjusters are now delivering that message to thousands of people, including the Kadlecs, trying to wring out Hurricane Floyd from their carpets...