Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City's Fifth Avenue not far from Tiffany's gems sits a different kind of jewel box: a 20,000-sq.-ft. pleasure palace awash in cool shades of celery and dove and replete with overstuffed furniture and antiques. Top stylists have been lured to snip and color hair, usually after guests have had massages, facials, mudpacks, herbal wraps or nail services. "With career and mothering, I don't have time," says TV producer Colleen Growe, 39. But every few weeks, she'll break away for a leisurely manicure, haircut and massage. "Just walking down the hall feels luxurious...
...quality of day spas can vary widely. While some are luxe, full-service retreats, others are tacky, glorified nail or hair salons with a wax room. Some discreetly mention products for sale, while others harangue customers to buy expensive wares. Many cannot live up to their extravagant come-ons, promising renewed energy and eternal youth. Yet they may do some good. A 1996 survey at the University of Miami found that 26 adults given 15-min. back rubs twice a week for five weeks showed signs of less stress, were less depressed and performed better on math tests. "Something...
...voice is nasal and singsongy, full of flat Chicago vowels. He is 57, his hair and beard trimmed close, and his upbeat manner hardly resembles that of the man who three years ago was marched out of his tiny Montana cabin and into infamy. He makes constant eye contact, laughs easily and often; when it's time for a photograph, he jokingly pops out a fake front tooth, as if to parody the deranged mountain-man image he inhabits in the public's mind. He is, for the most part, affable, polite and sincere. It would almost be easy...
...Hussein, the U.S. has opted for dropping friendlier, 2,000-lb., laser-guided bombs on military targets. We've tried warm-and-fuzzy wartime techniques before, like when we blasted MANUEL NORIEGA's compound with loud rock music. Once, the CIA considered a plot to make Fidel Castro's hair fall out by putting thallium powder in his boots. The Army also fed unsuspecting U.S. soldiers with LSD. You don't get much warmer and fuzzier than that...
HATS OFF! It's only a first step, but scientists may be a hair closer to a cure for baldness. Using injections of a gene--nicknamed the Sonic hedgehog--they have been able to awaken hair follicles from a resting state and force them into an active one. Alas, that's just in mice. Whether the therapy works on human pates remains to be seen. One potential problem: the Sonic hedgehog gene is linked to basal-cell carcinoma, a common, treatable skin cancer...