Word: moons
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...liking for beauty goods formulated with natural ingredients - has been lost on sake brewers, who are rushing to develop skin-care lines featuring their rice wines. With high levels of naturally created amino acids, these New Age elixirs are aimed at moisturizing and protecting the skin without irritation. Moist Moon (www.moistmoon.jp), launched by the 368-year-old Gekkeikan Sake Co. last October, is one example. The product range includes body soap, shampoo, facial creams and serums - all made with a combination of rice, rice bran, sake and the lees left over from brewing. "The company knew that in order...
...highly prized breeds in short supply. "People are more sophisticated," says Nancy Buley of J. Frank Schmidt & Son in Oregon, which ships more than 3 million trees annually to nurseries across the country. "They're looking at sustainable landscape design and low-maintenance trees." The good news: according to Moon Nurseries in Maryland, look-alike species can often be found. They sometimes even cost less--and you'll have a better shot at creating that spot of shade before summer. --By Maggie Sieger
...Ganges as a straw man for obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East. The sequence ends, not insignificantly, with Glenn sitting on his stoop, lost in thought, with the moon over his shoulder. Is he a generic avatar or deep, complex character? Ganges becomes both as Huizenga puts him through various scenarios that straddle the border between reality and fantasy...
...Gloriana" ends with a strange encounter between Glenn and his next-door neighbors. The rising moon appears large and red on the horizon, a site his neighbors take as a sign of the apocalypse. Glenn attempts to disillusion them with a lengthy scientific explanation, which Huizenga depicts in a series of textbook-like drawings. These contrast with his figure style, which has a vague resemblance to the work of E. C. Segar and his "Popeye" characters with their soft shoulders and simplified faces. Huizenga concentrates less on the particular details of a panel in favor of its overall design...
...just making buildings here,” Mayne said. “We’re not putting people on the moon. Anything is possible [when you are] asking questions...