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Most of us don't expect the fountain of youth when we slather on a face cream at night. After all, we've grown up with fantastical claims from the cosmetics industry that never seem to pan out. But suddenly the cosmetics counters are arrayed with dozens of new products that promise really and truly to reduce the signs of aging. The difference is that this time around, there may be some solid science behind the claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Lift In A Jar? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...going to want to get to places they can't go, so no matter what they tell you, just tell them that you don't have the authority to allow them to go there." A reporter watches the group with bemusement as he sips water from a fountain--he knows very well that he'll get where he can't go, or else he'll be fired...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life in a Parking Lot | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...lost on an American audience. While the whole cast does a good job at being British, the culture-bending trophy must go to Carmicheal's Kerner. The accent might be a little bit canned, but Carmicheal plays Stoppard's stereotypical Russian with ease; philosophical, profound and a fountain of abstract truth in a world of nicely clipped English chatter. For all this, though, he ends up being as inhibited as the notoriously uptight English; presenting the condition as something human rather than something cultural. When Carmicheal is joined with Byron's solidly played straight-man, and Knapp's desperately bright...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spies and Thrills Abound in 'Hapgood' | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

Hollywood, of course, is feng shui ground zero. Rob Lowe, whose career has seen plenty of mishaps, hired a feng shui consultant to renovate his on-set trailer for the TV show The West Wing. To attract positive qi, he installed a water fountain, rearranged the furniture and moved a mirror. The West Wing (audience: 12.9 million) is a critical and ratings success. To many in Hollywood, that's pretty much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luck Be a Stone Lion | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...Billings & Stover was originally a pharmacy with a soda fountain. But thanks to University Health Services and CVS, pharmacy business has been steadily declining...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunset in the Square | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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