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Move over, Botox. Hyaluronan is the new rejuvenator. Found in the umbilical cord, some bacteria and the red combs of roosters, hyaluronan reduces inflammation in arthritic knees and prevents scar tissue after surgery. It's also what makes up the gel Restylane, a Medicis product recently approved by the FDA to plump wrinkles around the nose and mouth. (Botox is used to erase crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines.) Europeans and Canadians have been using Restylane for years. Another wrinkle buster, Hylaform, manufactured by Genzyme, is awaiting FDA approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A to Z Guide | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...took just three raids, Whiteside says, for the team to gel. Over the next three months, the platoon conducted more than 40 raids on houses of suspected insurgents and former members of Saddam's regime in Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

METROSEXUAL A heterosexual with hair gel, as popularized by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and British soccer god David Beckham. By year's end it was already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Buzzwords | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

Rosenthal also advised frequent hand washing with either soap and water or an alcohol-based hand gel to provide a measure of protection during a possibly severe flu season...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: University Readies For Severe Flu Season | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...guards, working with [the] point guards, make it very hard to defend us,” junior Katie Murphy said. “Whatever two guards are playing, they make a way for the offense to gel, using their different strengths...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Solid Back Court Promises Depth | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

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