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...ruin that dream, buying them round after round. By the time the music stops and a Reno campaign ad comes on the giant video screens, putting a bit of a damper on the already struggling atmosphere, my new friends have climbed onto a huge plastic stage, where they gyrate to the ad. When Reno finally hits the stage, the newly converted Nicole is screaming, "Reno rocks!" over and over, so I miss a lot of the speech, but it seems to have something to do with wanting to improve the state of Florida...
...Bottom line: Plastic surgery, anybody? Or how about just aging gracefully...
...else fails, there's one last surgical approach: total knee replacement. It's a major operation that involves removing the worn-away knee cap, replacing it with a plastic one and resurfacing the adjacent bones with plastic and metal veneer. It requires months of postsurgical physical therapy, but doctors report that the operation is up to 90% effective. Or at least they think...
...MELIN, 77, entrepreneurial co-founder of Wham-O, the toy giant that brought baby boomers the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee and the SuperBall; of Alzheimer's disease; in Costa Mesa, Calif. After a friend showed Melin and his partner a rattan hoop popular in Australia, Wham-O introduced a plastic version in 1958. Mania over the Hula Hoop was ferocious but short lived; it cost Wham-O, which at one point made 20,000 a day, $10,000 in losses that year...
...stock prices understand all too well the pressures facing our Person of the Week - the American investor, on whose slumped shoulders a troublesome burden has been placed. Last year, the fortunes of America Inc. depended on the willingness of the nation's consumers to keep whipping out the plastic even as jobs, bonuses and retirement funds were disappearing by the hour. But not even the consumers' continued spending was enough to prevent U.S. corporations shedding more than $2.5 trillion in market capitalization this year. Consumers have done their bit; now it's up to the investors to keep us afloat...