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Especially nowadays, I want results. Gold, silver or bronze. No tin, no plastic. None of that mystery alloy the government uses in those oddly light, play-money quarters it has been minting...
...conflict has taken on new dimensions. The catalyst for the current round of hostilities was the Feb. 14 bombing of an Israeli Merkava Mark 3 tank in the central Gaza Strip, which killed three Israeli soldiers. An Israeli official told Time the bomb contained the high-density plastic explosive C-4, large amounts of which the Israelis believe are being smuggled into Gaza through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. "It's frightening to think that the next suicide bomber will have C-4 in his belt," says a senior Israeli security official. "The destruction will be far worse than...
...toxin that causes botulism (a form of food poisoning) was a treatment only for spasmodic eye muscles. Then doctors saw that it also smoothed skin. Now it is the most popular cosmetic procedure, with more than a million injections in 2000 (according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), 89% of them to women. Botox is just the thing to erase worry and anger lines, to take years and cares off the most fretful visage. And all for $300-$1,000 a shot, compared with a $15,000 face-lift. "Advertisers can present this as a face-lift...
...solid, giant, silly performance, the kind America mastered long ago. There was some kind of very Olympicesque allegory about overcoming adversity in which evil icicle people chased a small boy with a lamp. Sting sang. Native Americans played flutes. The wave was waved. The entire stadium played plastic flutes and sang a rendition of She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain. And they didn't seem to mind...
...Winners MARGARET THATCHER Two-ton likeness of ex-PM put in Parliament, despite rule nixing statues of living pols. Plastic figurine of John Major, though, will have to wait CELINE DION Canadian chanteuse releases first new tune in two years. Surprisingly, her latest song is about how love conquers all CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison...