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Over the years, breast implants have inspired envy, ogling and insecurity--as well as health concerns and multimillion-dollar lawsuits. But suicide? It seems so, according to a study of 3,521 Swedish women who had breast implants between 1965 and 1993 for purely cosmetic reasons (and not, for example, to replace breasts lost to cancer). Researchers found that surgically enhanced women were nearly three times as likely to commit suicide...
Halbritter established the Turning Stone Casino Resort in New York, which is now a multimillion-dollar source of income for the nation, and is credited with implementing health and education programs for its people...
...morning with a trip to the University of Southern California’s Graduate School of Cinema and Television. After being introduced to the Stark Producing Program, we were shown around the Zemeckis Digital Studio Building, where we were allowed to look at the Avid editing systems and other multimillion dollar toys...
Unknown brands are something of a paradox because the oil in the engine of fashion is the brand. How can fashions become fashion when people don't know what it is that they should be lusting after? And where does that leave the big brands and their multimillion-dollar ad campaigns, boutiques and celebrity designers? Many have responded by acquiring the smaller brands, a trick they learned from the beauty business, in which the conglomerate Estee Lauder, for example, bought out M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown in the mid-'90s. Between December 2000 and July 2001, the Gucci Group snapped...
...same time, the iconography of the abortion-rights movement is fading from memory. Indeed, pro-choice stalwarts pitched themselves to a younger audience more than four years ago with a multimillion-dollar campaign in which some of the ads featured coat hangers. To some of the movement's newest members, the message seemed almost laughably out of touch. "I've been in meetings where feminist activists make no attempt to really listen to young women," says Jennifer Baumgardner, an active Planned Parenthood member and the co-author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "The women...