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...dazzled by technology. "Patients get excited by the high-tech gadgets, and many physicians exploit them because they have to pay for expensive machines," says Dr. Leslie Baumann, director of cosmetic dermatology at the University of Miami. A walking advertisement for cosmetic procedures herself at age 33, she often favors cheaper chemical peels over lasers. "You have to be savvy. Some chemical peels can give the same effect [as lasers] at much better prices." Physicians who recommend laser work, moreover, are not always objective; some are paid consultants or stockholders in the very laser company whose machine they're using...
...memoirs for pro athletes such as Nolan Ryan and Walter Payton. The Left Behind books are his passion, though. Of the Rapture and Second Coming, he says, "We believe it could happen today or it could happen a thousand years from now." He resists the notion that his novels exploit today's premillennial anxiety. "The books don't mention any date whatsoever. We're not talking about the millennium. We're not talking about...
...that potential audience, he could easily recover his costs and turn a handsome profit. From there, the film could travel the traditional distribution route: video, pay-per-view, hbo and finally free TV. Says Bain: "This reverses the distribution chain. We can be in the revenue stream first and exploit all the nontheatrical opportunities ourselves. We can cut out that whole middle layer...
Whoever did it, the creation of technology gave its inventors an astonishing advantage over other hominid species. Stone hammers and blades let them exploit carcasses left behind by other predators and permitted them to shift to an energy-rich, high-fat diet. "That," asserts Asfaw, "leads to all kinds of evolutionary consequences...
...these, White suggests, was the ability to exploit a broader range of habitats, eventually enabling our ancestors to leave Africa and colonize most of the globe. But even more important was the expansion of our brain, with all the potential that went with it. Explains Meave Leakey: "The brain is a very expensive organ in terms of metabolism." It can grow larger only in a species that's routinely consuming high-energy food. One impetus for such growth--and in particular, the growth of the cognitive areas that distinguish ours from other large brains--could have come from our increasingly...