Word: cosmeticize
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Quietly, Lear recedes as the band of vocal editors suggests fresh definitions: "sensual," "off the nest," "reborn," "glamourized," "well maintained." "Too much like automobiles," trills Lear, shooting across the room like a small comet. At 65, she's delicately handsome: 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs., with a taut dancer...
That could mean a direct hit or, more probably, another nerve-jangling near miss. But even if 1989FC never strikes earth, a similar asteroid is destined to do so eventually. It has happened so many times before, in fact, that the earth's surface would be as pockmarked as the...
Alexander Podrabinek, an underground-newspaper editor who was once exiled to Siberia for nearly six years for examining Soviet psychiatry in a book titled Punitive Medicine, contends that the changes are strictly cosmetic. Even though the special psychiatric hospitals are nominally controlled by the civilian Ministry of Health, he notes...
No geneticist today would even talk about creating a master race. Scientists are careful to point out that experiments in gene therapy will be aimed at curing hereditary disease and relieving human suffering, not at producing some sort of superman. But what if people want to use the technology to...
Until recently, the drugs were considered mainly the bane of competitive sports and body building. But the alarming fact is that steroids, which are synthetic male hormones, are increasingly being abused by teenage boys for cosmetic reasons. A report last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed...