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Particular quarterbacks move teams beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...
Time "delves the parallels in beauty's brow," wrote Shakespeare. Today he could wryly add, "So plastic surgeons to your very wish will bow." Over the years, the cosmetic wizards have conjured many escapes from the ravages of age, from chemical peels to skin abrasion to surgical lifts. Now they are wielding a new magic wand: syringes filled with collagen. Injections of the whitish gel smooth away time-worn creases as well as acne and surgical scars. And at a relatively affordable price: treatments run $300 to $1,500, about a third of the price of a typical face-lift...
...about a day, takes 15 min. to half an hour and can be completed during a lunch hour. "The nice thing about collagen is that the individual doesn't have any telltale signs," says Dr. Frederick Grazer, a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach, Calif. "When you have a face-lift, you have to go into hiding...
...technique appeals especially to those who are afraid of cosmetic surgery or who are too young for a full face-lift. "I was starting to get lines, and they were not part of how I felt I should look," said Marilyn Tschida, 44, owner of a picture-framing store in West Palm Beach, Fla., who had frown lines filled out last month. Mary Nielsen, an Oakland sales representative who says she is in her late 30s, decided to ease her laugh lines when "people started calling me 'Ma'am' instead of 'Miss.' " Michael Epstein, 32, who runs eight miles...
Argentina last week proposed an end to hostilities and a resumption of normal diplomatic relations if Britain would lift a 150-mile protective zone around the Falkland Islands that keeps out Argentine ships. Argentina also wanted to discuss the sovereignty of the British-held Falklands (pop. 2,000), which Argentina claims and calls Las Malvinas...