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...Lasers have been used to cut cloth, cauterize ulcers, measure air pollution and guide bombs. Now comes a new wrinkle: laser beams for facelifts. A painless, nonsurgical laser-beam therapy, said to improve facial muscle tone, was developed in the Soviet Union, popularized in Europe, and is currently winning a large following in California and Florida. "It's like taking your face to the gym," says one satisfied customer. But according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, it is more like being taken to the cleaners...
...method employs a very low-powered laser, somewhat like the one used to read price codes at supermarket check-out counters, and directs it at sags, bags and furrows. The full course often to 16 treatments can cost as much as $1,000, and considerably more when the recommended monthly "booster" sessions are included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle...
...that he was the last man to know everything worth knowing. Today's cliche is that 90% of all scientists in the history of the world are alive now. Yet their knowledge has become hopelessly fragmented; the specialist in recombinant DNA feels no more obligation to understand laser surgery than to hear the latest composition by Pierre Boulez...
There are now thousands of Ph.D.s unable to find anyone willing to pay them for their hard-earned knowledge of Renaissance painting or the history of French monasticism, but any Sunday newspaper overflows with ads appealing for experts in electromagnetic capability, integrated logistics support or laser electro-optics. Says George W. Valsa, supervisor of the college-recruiting section at Ford: "We are not ready to sign a petition to burn down liberal arts colleges, but don't expect us to go out and hire many liberal arts graduates." Ford does hire nearly 1,000 graduates a year, and most...
...green-shaded woods and head for the blue line of the Fulda River. The Livermore programmers have lavished colorful detail on their simulation: as the action mounts land mines explode in flashes of white, and helicopter symbols appear over enemy outposts. Artillery fire slashes across the screen like a laser sword. The flight time the shells is preprogrammed to the millisecond; even reloading is figured in. The computer, executing 2 million programming instructions per second, takes 20 seconds to analyze the effects of a ten-kiloton blast. Towns are reduced to rubble. Forests erupt in flames, represented by flickering...