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...would end up with the Gap's predictably adequate $48 version, but I lingered at Ralph Lauren, fingering the blazer's golden buttons, trying to rationalize such an indulgent purchase. It's a special occasion, I reminded myself. Nothing's too good for my boy. Besides, the jacket was cheap compared with the $525 vintage Levi's ("That's five bills for pants somebody else pooped in!" my husband exclaimed when I told him about the diminutive jeans). But I remembered that I was about to buy a garment my son would wear once and quickly outgrow and that...
...great democratization of plastic surgery that her unveiling can be portrayed as a family event--like a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, only slightly more disturbing. "Having work done" was once something rich people did, quietly, and everyone else whispered about, cattily. Then came Botox--the relatively cheap and painless gateway drug of cosmetic work--and plastic surgery was being touted in women's magazines and on talk shows. This has been a boon to surgeons, but it has turned plastic surgery into the new Las Vegas: once laced with glamour and vice, now opened up to boring normal...
...wasn't until the fall of the Soviet Union that cheap Russian ice vessels and their crews became available to tour operators, and Antarctic tourism could really begin to develop, with the 1990-91 season setting a then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights...
...about 30 guests. With only eight guests, the Ramsay-Tjalsma wedding in Certaldo cost just j3,000. The savings come from having to entertain fewer people, since it's easier to keep the guest list in check for a destination wedding. But if a destination wedding can be cheap, it can also be a hassle. Since legal requirements for marriage vary by country, couples who venture abroad must contend with complications that would never arise at home. France, for example, requires a pre-marriage residency period of at least 40 days, so destination weddings there are often merely a symbolic...
...catalog of epithets, "Nazi" trumps them all - the ghosts of the 55 million who died in World War II see to that. If a wise God were in charge of the world stage, he would decree: Thou shalt not exploit the memory of the Holocaust by using it for cheap political purposes. The label has become the universal atomic bomb of denigration, and you don't even have to be German to have it dropped on your head. Remember last fall, when one of Schröder's minions compared George W. Bush to Hitler? This riled the White House...