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...tricky, but it's doable. Then just throw my skis and rifle and all my other junk in the rental car and drive like hell back to Jackson Hole, change my flight and head back to sweet, sweet Jersey. No more skiing. No more hills, no more lactic acid hell. Just hug my wife, play with my kids for a while, take a nap on the couch and forget this ever happened...
Fortunately, there's more than one way to slough off a layer of skin. When Cleopatra bathed in sour milk 2,000 years ago, she was actually giving herself a weak chemical peel--in her case with lactic acid. Nowadays she would have plenty of company in that tub. Jayne Singer, 46, a special-ed teacher, found that the stresses of her job helping inner-city Los Angeles teens were taking a toll on her face. She tried toners, pore cleansers, eye creams and masks of egg yolk and witch hazel. Nothing worked. Then she hit upon glycolic peels...
...know that lactic acid is just one of a group of compounds, called hydroxy acids, that can reduce wrinkles. The trick is to get the right concentration. Too much and you burn through too many layers. Too little and there's no effect at all. Even modest amounts irritate the epidermis a little, causing it to swell, which has the benefit of filling out some of those furrows...
...remote control. With this hairnet-like apparatus sending complex algorithmic signals into your motor cortex and parietal lobe, you'll actually feel what it's like to be slashed across the eyes by a high-sticking Tie Domi. Seated on your couch, you'll writhe in agony from lactic-acid accumulation at the end of an Ironman Triathlon. And you'll hop around your living room like a maniac as you actually experience the excruciating pain of Mike Tyson's incisors on your...
...physically rewarding to your body," Caitlin M. Hurley '97 says. In particular, she describes lightly jogging the next day "to get the lactic acid out" and having a "90-year old woman" gain...