Word: facials
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Botox has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, fans of cosmetic quick fixes are buzzing about the next miracle injectable. It's Restylane, a synthetic hyaluronic acid that, like collagen, can fill in facial lines and plump up lips. It's already a hit in Europe and Canada, though its maker has yet to seek approval in the U.S. But last week it completed its U.S. clinical study, and the results were impressive. Restylane outperformed a collagen-based substance by a 6-to-1 ratio. Unlike collagen, which lasts only about three months for some patients, Restylane...
...What's also disturbing is that the con seems to have required the complicity of consulate staffers, possibly local Vietnamese. Unlike most immigration policies, the Amerasian regulations are designed to be lenient. A visa can be granted to anyone deemed to possess "Amerasian facial features." So it's hard to understand how Tran Van Hai could have been rejected. Dark-skinned with kinky hair and built like a linebacker, Hai, 30, says he's the son of an African-American airman named Mark who lived with his mother in the 1970s. Denied a visa, he went to the consulate...
...year? It is far too easy to construe straightforward differences about politics or academic policy in terms of so-called racial bias. At any great university, scholars are divided by their different opinions and views. Those differences of opinion very rarely occur because of differences in skin color or facial features. Nevertheless, some see race bias in nearly every conflict...
Neuroimaging studies confirm what scientists long suspected: autistic brains don't react to facial cues the way normal brains do. But in one regard the conventional wisdom was wrong. In a breakthrough study, Karen Pierce at the University of California at San Diego has shown that when faces of strangers are replaced by faces of loved ones, the autistic brain lights up like an explosion of Roman candles...
...Difficulty making friends --Difficulty reading or communicating through nonverbal social cues, such as facial expressions --No understanding that others may have thoughts or feelings different from his or her own --Obsessive focus on a narrow interest, such as reciting train schedules --Awkward motor skills --Inflexibility about routines, especially when changes occur spontaneously --Mechanical, almost robotic patterns of speech (Even "normal" children exhibit some of these behaviors from time to time. The symptoms of autism and Asperger's, by contrast, are persistent and debilitating...