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...belts, eyeglasses, an American girl doll (Dad thinking that this was the third most expensive item going through, after his G-4 and iPod), other dolls - all these things went flying onto the desk, as the attendant stood there aghast. Caroline, the big sister, took charge. She spotted a plastic truck in her brother?s hand. She went to the woman and earnestly asked, ?Do you check trucks...
...says. “Agnes was genitally mutilated when she was a little girl. Her vagina was ripped open, but so was her soul. She said she was going to put a stop to this, so she walked through the Rift Valley in Kenya carrying a plastic model of a woman’s torso with removable vagina pieces, teaching boys and girls about genital mutilation...
...mind was boggled. How better to say “I love you” than with a heart made of tofu? And so, with agreeably high hopes (for a disastrous evening), I arrived at 60 Brattle Square with my requisite accoutrements: two wine glasses and a plastic container that could be used as a “dump bucket.” What the heck a dump bucket was and just when it should be used was, alas, never made clear. I can only stick with my original guess: that it is the new term for colostomy...
Marcia Avis transformed her late father's Southfield, Mich., plastic-surgery practice into a medi-spa and increased revenues 40%, to $450,000, in 2003. She positioned her medi-spa as an affordable alternative to plastic surgery. "If a client can't afford a $9,000 face-lift, he or she is more likely to spend $3,000 on a rejuvenation package of collagen and Botox injections, microdermabrasion facials and chemical peels," Avis says...
...growth of medi-spas has prompted a competitive response from more traditional day spas. Last June Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon & Spa in New York City hired a part-time plastic surgeon to administer Botox injections. Other Elizabeth Arden locations will get doctors later this year. "We have introduced several different modalities tied into what the medi-spas are doing, which is creating a relaxing environment like the traditional day-spa industry but providing Botox injection, for example," says Elaine Sauer, Elizabeth Arden's national spa director and head of Mario Tricoci Salons in Chicago. The doctors, she says, give...