Word: mila
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...time, “That 70’s Show” was watchable and, occasionally, very enjoyable. It launched the film careers of Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace, and, to a lesser extent, Laura Prepon, Wilmer Valderrama and Mila Kunis (Remember “American Psycho 2: All American Girl?”). And the chemistry between the cast members was one of the best on TV, even if the show verged on self-parody. But it just doesn’t have “it” any more (or, for that matter, Kutcher or Grace...
DIED. LEON URIS, 78, robust novelist of war's glories and ravages; in Shelter Island, N.Y. After serving as a Marine on Guadalcanal, he scored with best sellers set on the front lines of World War II (Battle Cry), the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (Mila 18), Israel (Exodus) and Palestine (The Haj). He also wrote his own epitaph; his tombstone will read: AMERICAN SOLDIER. JEWISH WRITER...
...York Solanka rages, blacks out, and becomes involved with two women, Mila, (short for Milosevic, “no relation”) who looks like Little Brain, and the beautiful freedom fighter Neela...
Cosmetic companies usually love to trumpet their "miracle" ingredients. But placenta--the embryonic tissue formed in pregnant mammals and used for decades as a wrinkle reducer--is one beautifier that has long been kept under wraps. That may be changing: Mila Skin Care's new Amber Cream Placental has become a hot seller by proudly promoting the taboo ingredient. A 59-year-old aesthetician in Beverly Hills, Calif., says she gave up Botox injections a month after she started using the skin smoother. "The lines are just staying away," she says...
Dozens of cosmetic companies have informed the FDA of their use of human placenta, but most have been afraid to advertise it because consumers are squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract in its popular Revitalizing Cream; the Japanese company won't even say what kind of animal it comes from. Progressive Beauty Brands executive David Blum admits his Placenta Plus products sell best overseas and in Hispanic communities, "where there's less resistance to the word placenta...