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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...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Supports Cell Research | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The War on Wrinkles | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The War on Wrinkles | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychological Torture? | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

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