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Walk into a Sephora cosmetics store anywhere, and you'll be bombarded with slickly packaged products promising to make you look radiant, smell good and feel gorgeous. Yet almost hidden among those glamorous potions is a plain medicinal box--labeled with the unsexy pitch INTENSIVE CONCENTRATE FOR EXISTING STRETCH MARKS (STRIAE DISTENSAE)--that just happens to be one of the chain's Top 10--selling items. No, stretch marks haven't suddenly become big business. But thanks in part to aggressive ads that proclaim it "Better than Botox?," the scientific-sounding StriVectin-SD has become the hottest thing...
...summer they have to stay indoors to avoid the midday heat. But despite those inconveniences--and in part because of them--they have developed a deep love of the desert in the five years since they moved here. Twenty miles from Tucson, their house looks out on a plain of saguaro cacti stretching to the Rincon Mountains. At night the stars shine brightly without competition from human lighting. Paul, 68, a semiretired software developer, gets all the hiking and bike riding he wants, and Carolyn attends lectures to learn how to grow desert plants in their yard. "You have...
...manufacturing, Aichi has posted one of the top economic growth rates in the nation in recent years. It boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates, the second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain old civic pride. "In many ways, this is one of the city's finest eras," says Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki, a machine-tool company that has just relocated its headquarters from a neighboring prefecture to downtown Nagoya...
...Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir?the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads to the summit and (weather permitting) a spectacular dawn...
...Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir - the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads to the summit and (weather permitting) a spectacular dawn. Mount Fuji, Japan, 3,776 m "He who does not climb Mount Fuji once in his life is a fool; he who climbs it twice is also a fool...