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...legs. Her eyes are rimmed with liner and when she speaks, it's in a voice much younger than her words. Beth has pink hair, purple hair, green hair, blue hair, studs up the sides of both ears and a silver barbell through the top of her chin. Her tank top displays lines of self-inflicted cuts...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...That's a valid point," a boy standing nearby says, scratching his chin. "I'd like to subscribe to your weekly newsletter...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...host of other customers were reportedly summoned before a federal grand jury this summer to hear the bad news that the scarves--which can fetch up to $15,000--are not just wretchedly expensive; they're also illegal. "I was told that the hair came from the chin of the ibex goat," says Kempner. "That [the goats] rubbed it into the rocks and villagers picked it up and wove it into shawls." That is a quaint--and popular--delusion. The wool of a goat is combed and woven into pashminas. But the superior wool of shahtooshes is harvested from dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft, Warm And Illegal | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Pedro ? that's Martinez, of course ? had, the evening previous, pitched six hitless innings against the Cleveland Indians to cap (as they say in baseball) a near-miraculous comeback and lift the Red Sox into the American League Championship Series against the reviled Yankees. Scott tickled Callie under the chin and said, ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." They both giggled. Scott was making sport. He thought he was being funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

Hair removal is not cheap (an average $500 a treatment). But for many women (and some men), it seems a small price to pay to solve a problem that still carries a stigma. Even in this feminist era, female mustaches and chin hair are not openly discussed or even much written about. "A lot of people feel psychologically scarred by heavy hair," says Dr. Edward Tobinick, director of UCLA's Institute of Laser Medicine. "One woman got up at 2 a.m. to shave before her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetic Surgery: Light Makes Right | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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