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...sparked by the recognition that sugarcoated Christianity, popular in the 1980s and early '90s, has caused growing numbers of kids to turn away not just from attending youth-fellowship activities but also from practicing their faith at all. In a national survey recently released by Barna Group, a polling firm that tracks religious trends, only 33% of kids 13 to 18 responded that they attend a youth-group event regularly--a 3% drop since 1998. And while nearly 75% pray each week, that number has declined...
Little wonder, then, that Allergan and Medicis are aiming new products at each others' best sellers. The battle started last spring when Medicis was set to pay $3.2 billion for Inamed, a medical aesthetics firm with a promising product pipeline that included potential Restylane competitor Juvéderm and the U.S. rights to distribute Dysport (a Botox-like muscle relaxant that will be marketed here as Reloxin). Weeks before the deal was to close, Allergan, based in Irvine, Calif., swooped in and outbid Medicis by $200 million and also had to fork over $90 million to Medicis as a termination...
...they deliver heat energy to the skin's deeper layers, which essentially damages the layers on top, triggering a healing process that produces newer skin underneath. "You need to basically wound the skin, so you can get a healing response," says Keith Penny, director of research for Rhytec, a firm that makes Portrait PSR, a device that treats wrinkles with plasma...
...It’s very important when you choose a mate that you choose a person you really enjoy being with and that their values are the same as yours,” said former New Hampshire judge and partner of law firm Shaheen & Gordon, Bill H. Shaheen. His wife, Jeanne Shaheen, served as New Hampshire’s first woman governor from 1997 to 2003 and is now the director of the Institute of Politics...
Summers also said this summer that he would contribute to the blog Open University on The New Republic’s Web site—but he has yet to post to that page. And on Oct. 19, he joined the hedge fund firm D.E. Shaw as a managing director—a development that prompted fellow Open University blogger Daniel Drezner to write on the site, “SO THIS IS WHY LARRY’S BEEN...