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If you haven't already heard the term nootrope, better jot it down. Chances are you'll hear it a lot in the future. A marriage of the Greek words noos, for "mind," and tropein, for "toward," it refers to drugs that enhance mental performance?popularly known as smart drugs...
Here's the latest wrinkle in skin care: Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics giant, and Allergan, the $2.2 billion maker of Botox, have teamed to bring you the first-ever cosmetic version of a pharmaceutical product. Until now, Prevage, Allergan's topical antiaging treatment, has been available for purchase only at...
We keep witnessing how slyly the market promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the...
DIED. STELLA OBASANJO, 59, wife of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; after cosmetic surgery at a Spanish clinic; in Marbella. The flamboyant first lady reportedly had an operation to reduce her body fat but died following complications that are now being investigated. Her death occurred just a few hours after a...
Forget cosmetic changes like increased seat width?in the quest for more inflight space, why not do away with three-quarters of the passengers altogether? That seems to be the philosophy of Eos Airlines (eosairlines.com), the latest carrier on the North Atlantic route. Departing from London Stanstead, Eos's converted...