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...about a baked version? The latest trend is medical devices that use new noninvasive technologies that produce natural-looking results and let patients get back to work quickly. On the table: tools that use radio frequencies (Thermage), plasma gas (Portrait), infrared light (Titan), light-emitting diodes (GentleWaves), pulsed light (Palomar Medical Technologies' Lux system) and lasers (Fraxel, Vbeam) to smooth out and tighten the skin and soften the appearance of wrinkles. Syneron's eMax uses radio frequencies and light energies and costs about $175,000. According to Shiu-Yik Au, an analyst for Millennium Research Group, the market for aesthetic...
...energy to the skin's deeper layers, which essentially damages the layers on top, triggering a healing process that produces newer skin underneath. "You need to basically wound the skin, so you can get a healing response," says Keith Penny, director of research for Rhytec, a firm that makes Portrait PSR, a device that treats wrinkles with plasma...
Tezuka creates a devestating portrait of corrupting ambition as Kirihito's boss rises to power by exploiting victims of monmow disease. But the storyline that follows Kirihito's former colleague, Dr. Urabe, may be the most disturbing to Western audiences. While searching for the true cause of monmow disease Urabe struggles with his own predilections as a sexual predator. Ode to Kirihito has plenty of stunningly sadistic moments - including a giant snake consuming a baby for the pleasure of an audience - but the gratuitous scenes of rape, often followed by the victim's falling in love with the victimizer, will...
Evans added that the Kirkland portrait lacks the “lightness of touch” characteristic of the portraitist. Evans also noted that the shadow under Kirkland’s chin in the painting is incomplete, as if not done from real life...
...common for artists to make copies of their own work. In fact, Stuart frequently made copies of his famous works, according to Jennifer L. Roberts, an assistant professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard. She said that Stuart reproduced 100 versions of the George Washington portrait that is now featured on the dollar bill...