Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baby boomers are squeamish too. Does trying to stay young mean having to subject your delicate face to the surgeon's knife? What we'd much rather have is a cosmetic "quick fix": fresher, firmer skin with no blood and gore, very little healing time--and cheaper too. Cue the laser...
...done 200 or more laser procedures to be fully proficient. When choosing a doctor, recommendations from previous patients are a better guide than come-on advertisements. "Very intelligent people make poor decisions when choosing a physician for plastic surgery," says Dr. Tina Alster, a Washington dermatologist known as Dr. Fix It, who sees an average of two patients a week with laser-burn scars. "They believe all those hideous commercials." Finally, make sure the doctor is doing the work, not an aesthetician...
...budget would in fact be "robbing Social Security" to the tune of $7.6 billion next year. The Congressional Budget Office, using more respectable accounting, calculated an even higher number of about $18 billion. Faced with that kind of shortfall, the Congressional Republicans chose a desperate and despicable strategy: fix the numbers, and let any attendant suffering fall on the poor...
...July, Harvard made the first indication that it was trying to fix past errors when it issued a joint statement with HUCTW...
Without even realizing it, we have begun case-by-casing what "improvements" we can ethically tolerate. This will eventually create a snowball effect, and we will find ourselves in a genetic twilight zone. The only way really to fix what we have done will be to continue fixing our genes. Here's hoping for wiser, not smarter. KELLY SCHROTER Middletown...