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...trend as well. Orlane uses arctic cranberry seed oil in Hypnotherapy, a product meant to fight the effects of stress-induced aging. And of course there's Fresh's Elixir Ancien, a face oil made by hand in a Czech monastery. Glazman says now that they have the technology down???the use of sea buckthorn oil in cosmetics requires its staining red color and noxious gasoline smell to be removed?Fresh plans to use the oil in more creams...
...attempt to nail down??the question of whether prayer really can heal, six hospitals had strangers say prayers for 1,800 coronary-bypass patients and then studied the postoperative complications. Patients who were told they might or might not be prayed for had roughly the same complication rate, whatever their prayer status turned out to be. But those who were told for certain that they were in someone's prayers actually did worse. The doctors' tentative explanation: people who knew they were being prayed for might have thought they were sicker than they realized, which could have made their outcomes...
Peter O'Toole has faced down??some acting challenges in his day. (Lawrence of Arabia springs to mind.) But the movie he is making now is particularly treacherous. "What's the old cliché?" he asks. "Don't act with children and dogs? Well, try children, dogs, horses and hounds, coal miners, a motor car formerly the property of the late George Raft, and a fox. Try acting with that lot, which I did the other day. Verrrrry tricky." O'Toole, 72, knew when he signed up for the remake of Lassie that there would be a collie, a massive hunt...
...from the White House, that is galvanizing the nuclear-freeze advocates. For all the obvious reasons, they are uneasy about the military intentions of the Soviet Union. Unfairly or not, the Reagan Administration is also blamed for fueling the current jitters with loose talk?from the President on down???about the prospect of fighting a "limited nuclear war." Many Americans?including some with considerable expertise in the area?fear that their leaders are more comfortable than ever before with the thought of using nuclear weapons. "There is great concern that there are no serious efforts for arms control," says Thomas...
...last, the rates are coming down???or are they? For the moment, the news is good. On Wall Street last week, lenders bid down some key short-term interest rates sharply. For example, the interest on six-month Treasury bills dropped to 12.7%, down about Y2 percentage points since mid-February. Also last week major banks across the country chopped their prime rate on business loans, the most important single interest rate in the whole financial structure, by half a point, canceling an increase posted only a week earlier. That leaves the prime at 16.5%, a full five points below...