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...ThermaClear, two FDA-approved antiacne devices already on store shelves. Most other products are still in development. "This trend is going to change the way consumers get cosmetic treatments," says Rick Krupnick, CEO of Light BioScience, the maker of GentleWaves, a technology that uses light-emitting diodes to combat wrinkles and revitalize the skin...
Santorum said that to combat radical Islam, the U.S. needs to maintain an offensive stance, educate the American people, disarm the enemy, and involve the Islamic world in the process of halting the spread of radical Islam. “If Islam does not confront and deal with its radical elements, then we are going to be on a tough collision course,” Santorum said...
...between possessions he retreats to the sideline for shots of Vicodin, Lidocaine, and encouragement to do it all over again. “Off-season” is a myth. “Injured reserve” is for cowards. The athletes contribute to the circus of blue-collar combat 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. But the consequences of an NFL career are extreme and often unknown to the fans: the average veteran at any position dies before he turns 55, the age at which he can finally begin to draw full pension. The NFL uses...
...from the kind of terrorist attacks suffered in Algeria and Morocco. "We have eradicated terrorism as a phenomenon," says Refaï. Scores of members of the Tunisian Islamic organization Ennahdha have been jailed or exiled to Europe. This crackdown has intensified since Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat last year renamed itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and vowed to recruit terrorists across North Africa. In January, at least 14 people were killed in gun battles between security forces and groups of militants who had slipped across the border from Algeria...
...have the votes to override Bush's veto. Ahead of this fight, Obey chose last month to announce his intention to shelve the President's annual supplemental request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - $200 billion for 2008 - until Bush consents to a timeline for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Bush may have the veto, but he can't force Obey to move that bill out of committee...