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Many new lines go well beyond the razor's edge. They contain everything from jojoba or wheat-germ oil to elastin or collagen, and most have no added fragrance. Lauder's top-shelf stuff includes Men's Skin Repair Complex ($35 for .87 oz.), which promises to produce younger-looking skin. Interface offers a beefy $44, four-product Work-Out Kit, including an eight-page illustrated brochure on when and how to apply such items as the Gripper tightening mask (twice a week) and PCA Day Moisturizer (outward strokes each morning and evening). A less costly label...
...future, the near weightless, germ-free environment of space may be ideally suited to manufacturing certain drugs, including interferon and insulin, as well as growth hormones and metal alloys. "We can speed up research drastically. For every new chemical created on earth, we could make five in space," says James Rose, a research director at McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis-based aerospace company. The Administration has tried to encourage more space investment with tax breaks. It also heavily subsidizes the cost to private companies of launching satellites from the space shuttle. The U.S. Government does so because of stiff foreign...
...Secret Integration accurately catches the locutions of an alcoholic jazz musician. Under the Rose is an evocative spy story set in a kind of operetta Egypt, with all the local color lifted, as Pynchon admits, from a Baedeker guide for the year 1 899. From the germ of this story sprang...
...been his simple wish to walk barefoot on the grass and some day to live normally in the world. For this hope David, 12, and his family took the ultimate gamble: they traded the safety of a germ-free plastic bubble at Houston's Texas Children's Hospital for the slim chance that a bone-marrow transplant would allow the immunologically defenseless boy to live freely. Last week they lost their gamble, and his death was felt across the country...
...applause suggested that many among the A.B. A.'s 300,000 members (out of the nation's 620,000 lawyers) felt that there was more than a germ of truth in what Burger said. "There are too many lawyers," says Los Angeles Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry. "I'm really soured on the legal system." Some members of the bar, however, believe that Burger was out of order in portraying lawyers as villains in such melodramatic language. "The Chief Justice has a lot of important and valid comments," concedes David Shrager, president of the Association of Trial...