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...surface, it seems outlandish that people would buy 5 oz. of shaving cream for $22. This stuff is a commodity that just sits on your bathroom shelf, right? But don't underestimate the importance of a smooth shave. "A lot of our customers suffer from shaving discomfort," says Malka. "So spending $100 on shaving products becomes very inexpensive once you realize the benefits our products have on your skin." (See questions and answers about retirement...
...Aladdin, the gags come thick and fast - and that's even before Anderson wiggles and writhes across the stage in black stockings and pink platform shoes, "singing" Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle." In an early scene, Widow Twankey, Aladdin's transvestite mother whose outlandish outfits rival those of Lady Gaga, recounts why she had to return her antiperspirant to the local pharmacy: "The instructions said, 'Take off top and push up bottom.' I can't be doing that...
...This year, outlandish costumes won't be necessary to unite the group when they meet Nov. 12-13 in Singapore. The global financial crisis has already done it for them. As Asia searches for a new growth engine to replace the economically sputtering U.S., and as the U.S. looks increasingly to Asia for consumers to sell to and governments to borrow from, the question hovering over the summit is, Can the leaders of the world's fastest-growing region find a new economic model that works for both East and West? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...mirror mirror on the wall, who the realest of them all” and assert that Wale’s understanding of the urban experience is more pure than those of mainstream artists. Wale wants to distinguish himself from rappers who create outlandish media personas by allowing his audience to experience the “realest” person that looks back at him in the mirror...
...mechanics may have seemed outrageous. "The concept that you could have a wave-particle duality - that an object could take on either wave-like properties or point-like properties, depending on how you observe it - takes a huge leap of imagination," says Roberto Roser, a scientist at Fermilab. "Sometimes outlandish papers turn out to be the laws of physics...