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RETARDANT Nitrogen-heavy fertilizer mixed with water coats fuel to prevent burning. Iron oxide in the retardant gives it its orange color...
...your calendar is full or your pockets aren't, it might be wiser to buy straightener in a box from the store: a Japanese straight perm can take up to eight hours in the salon and cost as much as $700. "Some straight perms are done with a hot iron and are very time consuming, and some are done with chemicals and are less time consuming," explains Karla Newgarden-Takahara, a stylist at the Manhattan salon Space. "For my clients, I usually recommend the milder one. It's a lot less time, and it's a lot less money...
...bottom of the food chain were microbes that, scientists soon realized, were thriving on nothing more than heat and poison. "They make a living," explains John Baross, of the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, "by oxidizing sulfide, methane, iron and other metals." After years of digging into the sediments in and around vents, Baross discovered that these microbes have adapted to a wide variety of thermal conditions, from room temperature to well above boiling...
...numbers remind us that the movie industry remains at its core a boys' club. Yet for the first time in history, women are now running half of the six major movie studios. Sherry Lansing is celebrating her 10th anniversary as chairman of Paramount Pictures, ruling the studio with an iron fiscal fist. And her two younger colleagues--Amy Pascal at Columbia and Stacey Snider at Universal--are known to be every bit as brazen as their male counterparts when it comes to gambling with $200 million production and marketing budgets. All three women are working mothers with decidedly feminine personalities...
...graves in a nighttime rampage through a Rome cemetery. The vandals smashed headstones and tore off marble Star of David symbols in the Jewish section of the Verano cemetery. Members of Rome's Jewish community and top Italian officials condemned the attack. Police said that several people apparently used iron bars and clubs to damage the graves and pry open one coffin. NIGERIA Oil Women Between 200 and 300 ethnic Ijaw women occupied four oil pumping stations in Nigeria's coastal Delta State. Run by ChevronTexaco, the stations are in the same area as the Escravos oil terminal that...