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...want to have a good nose, which God did not give you in the first place, then you must spend for that." DR. ALICIA LIM, administrator of Manila's Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital, supporting a 20% "vanity tax" on cosmetic surgery currently under consideration by Philippine lawmakers...
...Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb [Feb. 14]. This international smuggling operation took place under the nose of the CIA and other global intelligence agencies. Given that track record, there is no reason to feel confident that Khan is safely under house arrest in Islamabad. Larry Dennison Port Townsend, Washington...
...Mary from danger. "Mary impregnates the air with oxytocin, a hormone conducive to trust and uterine contraction," he observes as she chats with Katya, a sinister colleague. "The 2 parts per 17 million diffusion of this chemosensory signal causes Katya, whose biology serves purely Machiavellian ends, to wrinkle her nose." Sayonara Bar's wealth of convincing detail - hostess lounge décor, menus and flirtation techniques, foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that. In fact, Barker, born 26 years ago to an English father...
...There are people with long hair and nose rings and eye pierce rings; sometimes that feels threatening to some people. But it doesn’t bother some people,” Pasquarello said. “Relatively speaking, Harvard Square is very safe—it really does not appear to be anything over and above what you would normally expect in an area of high visibility with large groups of people that congregate...
KHAN'S SALE OF NUCLEAR SECRETS AND A complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb. That smuggling operation took place under the nose of the CIA and other global-intelligence agencies. But what country did President Bush go after for hiding weapons of mass destruction? Iraq, a Middle Eastern country that didn't have the Bomb. Given that track record, there is no reason to feel confident that Khan is safely under house arrest in Islamabad...