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...bathroom cabinet--even if it belongs to their wives. "Men are huge cadgers," says L'Oreal CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. "They don't buy too much stuff for themselves." Owen-Jones loves to sail--a pastime that takes its toll on the complexion. So which moisturizer does he use? Er, two, actually--one from Lancome's Homme line and one from Vichy's Thermal S2 range (both L'Oreal brands, of course). "It's typical," he says. "One is a woman's product...
...think the fact that I cannot go home to China today indicates one thing very clearly: that Chinese leadership has not changed." Wu'er Kaixi, student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, on his first visit to Hong Kong since the 1997 handover. Wu'er remains on China's most-wanted list...
...Schnarch's program in 2001. Busy with their jobs and three kids, their marriage was somewhere between O.K. and icky. "The relationship was sustainable but not very satisfying," says Ken. And their sex life, he says, "was like your commute. You could practically do it with your eyes closed"--er, don't a lot of people do it that way?--"but you don't really look forward...
...luggage and possibly spying for Syria. That is, until it turned out that the documents might not have been classified, and he may have been guilty of only an extramarital affair. We all believed that postmenopausal hormone-0replacement therapy was a win-win medical breakthrough, until research found it, er, wasn...
That fear is well founded. Adding to the stigma surrounding AIDS in these villages is the role that local leaders played in the blood-buying program. "Many government officials made a lot of money," says the patient advocate who calls himself Ke'Er. To protect themselves, they wrapped their villages in the cloak of state secrecy, effectively sealing off AIDS patients from foreign aid groups as well as health officials from other provinces. AIDS-care centers still won't put the word AIDS on their doors, opting instead for such intentionally obscure labels as "home garden...