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...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...
...confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging a man strapped to a time bomb to fix his hair. They have other things on their mind. That has paralyzed reform...
Enter Takenaka, moving fast. In Japan the phrase that dare not speak its name right now is shock therapy, but that's exactly the kind of quick economic fix he has in mind. "How fast can we clean it up?" he asks me as we sit over tea. Five years, I guess. "We think two to three years, but we need to accelerate." The reason for the haste is simple: the reforms are likely to cause unemployment. That puts the reform package into a race with electoral confidence. If voters get fed up before the reforms have time to finish...
...hushed exchanges in the faculty lounge, has broken into the open. Because teachers are increasingly held to stricter performance standards, they are demanding the same of parents. "We're now discovering that even small class sizes with the best teachers and best materials may not be enough to fix a school," says Heather Weiss, director of Harvard's Family Research Project. "If you get parents on board then you've got a better shot." To lure them back, schools are doing everything from sending teachers on house calls to giving parents a larger role in school reform. The moves...
...neglect or not, Americans got used to plenty of quick-fix sympathy from Big Bad Bill, whether it was tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dispatching Bill Richardson to roam the desert to lean on OPEC or just a lot of lip-biting over prices at the pump...