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...anxiety is helping drive what analysts estimate is a $50 billion antiaging industry. Boomers are already the largest consumers of hair-coloring products, cosmetic dentistry and plastic surgery. That includes the men too. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says men received 1 out of 10 procedures in 2006. New York City cosmetic surgeon Dr. Neil Sadick says up to a quarter of his patients are male, many of them boomers whose goal is to look good for the office...
...middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped. “How Darwinian.” His dry, somewhat misanthropic sarcasm provided a refreshing contrast to the otherwise sappy holiday. As with any indie show, tight jeans and black plastic glasses were omnipresent. In this case, however, they were worn almost entirely by older (read: post-collegiate) people. This is partially because the Magnetic Fields have been around since the mid-nineties, but it also seems to be a function of the venue. Somerville Theater has found a unique niche...
Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military...
...past six months, however, Iran's actions have taken a more sinister turn. U.S. and NATO troops have intercepted shipments of Iranian-made arms in Afghanistan, including mortars, plastic explosives and explosively formed penetrators that have been used to deadly effect against armored vehicles in Iraq. U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood said on January 31, "There is no question that elements of insurgency have received weapons from Iran." The discovery of the first caches of Iranian-made weapons in Afghanistan in April, says a State Department official, "sent shock waves through the system." Iran was doing more than just...
...verdict is still out, however, on whether even the proposed changes will curb our addiction to plastic. One banker told TIME that a byproduct of a recession is that people charge more and don't pay it off, increasing their balances. Another is that it gives a bank that is ready for recession the opportunity to win share from the unprepared. Those might offset whatever pain the prospect of more regulation will bring...