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...weeks for allergy-test results before you can try it. "It will be a boon for the patient who says, 'I have a wedding in two weeks,'" says Dr. Rhoda S. Narins, a New York dermatologic surgeon who conducted some of the tests of Restylane. Beauty enthusiasts are downright giddy. "I've yet to hear anyone say anything negative about it," says Wendy Lewis, a cosmetic-surgery consultant in New York City who has used Restylane herself. The Swedish manufacturer of Restylane, Q-Med, plans to seek FDA approval next month and is hoping for a U.S. launch next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Botox: A Shot At Beauty Heaven | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Lehndorff’s vacant words a few pages later: “Life is like a bubble floating on the wind. It can vanish any moment.” Make your readers bemoan the fact that with more selective editing, this book could have been interesting, moving and downright good...

Author: By Myung Joh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take Their Advice | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...more could be done. The ISI wants to keep its militant "assets" should it decide to rev up its clandestine support for Kashmiri combatants, say Western diplomats. (For now, activity in guerrilla training camps inside Pakistan is suspended, militant sources say.) And some of these assets are downright dangerous. For example, the seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl in January all had indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmiri conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they are on the run, and as one investigator remarks acidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogues No More? | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

Dion falters when she tries to cover the Etta James' burner At Last. It's a song that requires soul; Dion hits all the notes, but there's a mass-produced, in-flight-magazine impersonality to her version. The chorus is downright chilly. But then, you don't turn to Celine Dion for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heart, No Soul | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

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