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When Pat Roitman turned 40, she began to notice red splotches and parched skin on her face. So she started taking quarterly trips from Detroit to New York City for medi-spa services. The airline employee, now 43, says microdermabrasion salt peels administered under a doctor's supervision have rid her face of blemishes and moisturized her dry skin. "I get a smoother surface on my face after a salt peel. I'm going after that porcelain-beautiful skin, and I want to do everything I can to have it," says Roitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty: Spas With A Twist | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...even though they have taken action to become more open. "It's hugely discriminatory and arbitrary," fumes Deborah Drummond, a Cayman Islands official. Tax avoidance, says Richard Schmalensee, dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, "is like graffiti or pollution: if you want to get rid of it completely you'll be disappointed." Drummond from the Cayman Islands concurs. "You can't prevent fraud from happening," she says, "but you need to be judged by what you do when it does happen. This is what gets missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm Over Tax Havens | 2/8/2004 | See Source »

This is my bitter story about how Hollywood screwed up my brilliant idea. Only it wasn't even Hollywood. It was VH1. It's really more a story about how four guys MTV was trying to get rid of screwed up my idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How I Nearly Killed VH1 | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Lyndon Larouche has promised to get rid of the so-called neo-cons,” an announcer declared...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Dems Campaign in N.H., Days Before Nation’s First Primary | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...German who grew up after World War II, I have always regarded any glorification of the military with skepticism and suspicion. Despite knowing how much Germans owe to the Allied forces that liberated us from Nazi terror, and acknowledging that the majority of Iraqis rejoice that they are rid of Saddam Hussein because of the efforts of American and coalition troops, I wish that others would not forget that an army uses force and violence. Innocent people have always suffered in wartime, no matter what the motives of the military. ECKHARD KORFF Lippborg, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 2004 | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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