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Forbes, who became a Harvard stage phenom, remains just as stunning more than a decade later. She has that rare species of blessed voice—fluid as quicksilver, full as down, and fine as lace. It carries a richness and sincerity that saturates every note she sings, regardless of the style or sentiment it embodies. It’s no exaggeration to say that, given the right combination of time and place, China Forbes’s voice can change your life...
...couturier who influenced me the most," says Christian Lacroix, who this season showed somber, voluminous coats that hark back to Balenciaga's work in the 1950s. "His use of materials, the graphic silhouette, the use of black and the influence of the Spanish Renaissance, lace, the pure opulence...
...malleable - which is to say, today's molded soft cup might not seem as attractive as a tissue-thin barely-there webbing in ten years. Like all other aspects of femininity, breasts are subject to the pressures of marketing and fashion and culture in addition to underwires and lace. Styles change but insecurity remains constant? we are willing to believe we're wearing the wrong bra size because, surely, something must be wrong...
...body synthesizes new skeletal tissue faster than it dies. Then the balance reverses, with bone being lost faster than it is replaced. In osteoporosis, that normal wasting away reaches such a hazardous level that bones become fragile. They lose their usual spongelike appearance and are more like porous lace. While both men and women experience bone loss, women are much more susceptible to osteoporosis. Bone deteriorates faster after menopause, probably in part because of a sharp drop in levels of the hormone estrogen...
...shocking, real-life update of Arsenic and Old Lace, two elderly women were arrested last week in Los Angeles for taking out life insurance policies on homeless men and then bumping them off. Literally. The two victims were killed in hit-and-run accidents after Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, and her friend Helen Golay, 75, allegedly took out at least 19 life insurance policies in the men's names. The women had collected more than $2 million before they were arraigned last week on eight counts of federal mail fraud. With the investigation still ongoing, police say they expect the suspects...