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...reportedly include Joan Rivers, Ivana Trump and ^ Elizabeth Taylor, appears to have close ties to Jackson. Though a plastic surgeon, he attended Jackson when the singer complained of chest pains three years ago. He has spent time at Jackson's home and is credited with the singer's 1982 nose job as well as the 1984 scalp surgery for burns Jackson received while filming a Pepsi commercial. Says one source: "He kept telling Hoefflin to make it smaller, make it smaller." Jackson has said it was the painful after-effects of scalp surgery that started him on his addiction...
...bathroom, they say, and affords you a better chance of beating the crowd when you reach your final destination. To hell with efficiency; I always choose the window seat. And then I stare out. At the runway whizzing by, then at the crazily tilted world below as we climb, nose first, into the air. On clear days, I try to catch a glimpse of cities below. (Flying up the East Coast, you can make out all of Manhattan--the shape of the island, the green of Central Park, the shimmering top of each skyscraper.) On cloudy days, I spot...
...Wasp style placed a high value on industry and success and a correspondingly low value on anything that was not useful. All the nose-to- the-grindstone maxims of Benjamin Franklin found eager Wasp readers. Unchallenged by medieval or socialist countermodels, the Protestant work ethic flourished here like an animal species without predators. Admiration for hard work and the expectation that hard workers would have something to show for it became the starlings of the American soul...
Morph 2.0 enabled TIME to pinpoint key facial features on the photos of the 14 people of various racial and ethnic backgrounds chosen for the chart. Electronic dots defined head size, skin color, hair color and texture, eyebrows, the contours of the lips, nose and eyes, even laugh lines around the mouth. The eyes in particular required many key points to make them as detailed as possible; otherwise the results would be very erratic. Similarly, miscalculating the dimensions of an upper lip only slightly, for example, could badly skew the resulting face...
...year-olds have clamored for kidney dialysis since the technique became available. Teenagers have likewise lusted after nose jobs, and after many years of research and development, doctors (to paraphrase columnist Dave Barry) have discovered the incredible benefits of becoming rich. Each new discovery has translated into longer life expectancies and greater quality of life...