Word: shavings
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...bear to look at yourself in the mirror? Maybe you'd prefer to look at Larry King while you shave (ouch!), or read your e-mail while brushing your teeth. That, at any rate, is what Philips thinks you might want to do in your bathroom. The Dutch electronics company is launching a mirror that triples up as TV screen and Internet monitor. Plug in a laptop or video feed and the polarized mirror lets through close to 100% of the light from the LCD screen behind. Philips says its first buyers later this year will likely be Dutch hotels...
While most undergraduates eligible for advanced standing either never take advantage of it or use it to earn both a bachelors and masters degree in four years, between 30 and 50 students typically will use it to shave off a year of college...
...preparation for the grueling competition, Radcliffe has tapered its workout schedule and attempted to hone its technique, hoping to shave those vital final seconds off its times...
...more demanding questions was the opportunity to shave off an eyebrow in exchange for 40 points...
...people to pay more to shave? That's the eternal question in the $6-billion razor business. Hair grows at the same rate year in and year out, and there are few activities more banal than shaving. But the Big Three razormakers - America's Gillette and Schick and France's Bic - have all come up with a cheeky answer; the very same cheeky answer. And so, after years of relatively peaceful coexistence, competition among them is about to become cutthroat. The three firms have jostled for shelf space for three decades, but in the past they relied on different marketing...