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...Massachusetts Senate, and later the state’s House of Representatives, voted overwhelmingly late last week to permit the use of somatic-cell nuclear transfer, a process by which scientists clone embryos and extract their stem cells for research purposes...
...compounds that target collagen production. Says Avon's research chief Janice Teal: "We've been using peptides in our products for years." Louis Rinaldi, head of Klein-Becker's new product acquisitions, counters that StriVectin's particular concentration of those compounds and the inclusion of a certain botanical extract make it more effective...
...Perfectionist is promoted in its ads as the ideal cream "for every woman who says no to Botox"; Avon's Anew Clinical Deep Crease Concentrate jabs at Botox with the line, "look stunning, not stunned" and contains a trademarked compound called Bo-Hylurox, a combination of a plant extract and hyaluronic acid (a jellylike substance found in skin tissue that helps restore its moisture). Admits Avon's Teal: "We made the [term] up. It telegraphs Botox and hyaluronic acid." And then there is Allergan itself, which came out with its own antiwrinkle cream in January, Prevage (sold only through dermatologists...
...Mona, 1970: The Jazz Singer of fuck films, Mona was pretty sure of itself for a lonely pioneer. It had a busy soundtrack: clavichord, old pop tunes, harmonica and jug band music, an Indian raga and a long audio extract from The Taming of the Shrew. It revealed Mona as a kind of fellatio virtuoso: when a guy she has solicited for a back-alley blow job tries to pay her, she replies daintily, "I didn't do it for money. I have a taste for these things." It boasts a piquant blend of tease and sympathy...
Military interrogators often have to play mind games with their Iraqi and Afghan prisoners in an effort to extract information. But how far should mental-health experts go in helping play those games? A report on detainee abuse, delivered to Congress on March 7 by Vice Admiral Albert Church, noted that there is "a growing trend in the global war on terror" for military psychiatrists and psychologists to take part in interrogations. Now some mental-health professionals, even within the military, are growing concerned that colleagues who have helped interrogators may have broken the first rule of medical ethics...