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...Skin lighteners are big business in Africa. Women - and some men - across the continent have long used creams and potions to make their skin a few shades lighter in the belief that it makes them more attractive. But the quest for beauty carries a heavy price. Many of the most popular creams contain hydroquinone, which can cause irreversible skin damage and even lead to skin cancer. Some creams also contain potentially lethal mercury, banned in cosmetics since the 1970s. But the creams remain as popular as ever despite government prohibitions in a dozen African countries. "As long as there...
...developed a rash on her face. "After a few weeks I noticed where the patch had been was very smooth," says Kariuki, now 30, who works as a production assistant in a Nairobi advertising company. She began applying it every night to her whole face. Her skin grew lighter but every time she was exposed to too much sun "my face went red and three weeks later it would all peel off." Friends told her that the cream may be dangerous but she persisted. Even her maid started to use it. "She was very black and now she's brown...
...drill Detroit, not the Arctic" campaign will find some support this week when the National Academy of Sciences releases a long-awaited study. The report, toned down after the auto industry protested that raising fuel-efficiency standards, by making cars lighter, makes vehicles less safe, is still likely to conclude that fuel efficiency can be increased at least 25% with existing technology...
...worked in tennis. Participation in the sport plunged in the mid-1980s, only to bounce back with the advent of lighter, more powerful, wide-body racquets made of composite materials. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, tennis players' numbers are increasing, and equipment sales are expected to rise 4% annually. "If you want the consumer's dollars, you have to bring real innovation to the game," says Johann Eliasch, CEO of Head--who exited golf because he didn't think his company could do so there. Tennis was another matter; last summer Head launched the Intelligence line, which uses...
...cigarette lighter in Strangers on a Train is more memorable than the image of Cézanne's apple, French director Jean-Luc Godard wrote, it's because Hitchcock was "the greatest creator of forms of the 20th century, and it's forms that tell us finally what lies at the bottom of things." Forms were Hitchcock's fetish, and he was a master at etching an image into his audience's memory. Movie fans will immediately recognize the show's small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed...