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...Numbers 4 Number of women out of 10 who use skin-whitening products in Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines 62 New skin-whitening products introduced across Asia last year...
...retailers is good news for foreign consumer-goods firms trying to tap into the market. Already some foreigners are working closely with the new generation of Russian retailers, hoping to piggyback off their expansion. The French cosmetics firm L'Oréal, for example, is selling in Russia two skin-care lines, Vichy and La Roche-Posay, distributed exclusively through pharmacies. The French company works with individual pharmacies to revamp their look and feel, including providing fittings such as shelving. This January, L'Oréal and a pharmacy chain called 36.6 teamed up to open what they call...
...decade since his dissertation, the desi rudeboy culture had grown less threatening, more universal. "I started going to desi nights at London clubs and found that white kids were now welcome," he says. "The beauty of the desi scene is that you don't have to have brown skin to be part of it." The growing acceptance of desi culture may widen Londonstani's audience, but Malkani chafes at comparisons with Monica Ali and Zadie Smith. "They're great writers," he says. "I was just trying to do a coming-of-age novel similar to the ones I read when...
Roth is too well attuned a writer to win this argument. His protagonist's memories of his boyhood are crystalline: "He ran home barefoot and wet and salty, remembering the mightiness of that immense sea boiling in his own two ears and licking his forearm to taste his skin fresh from the ocean and baked by the sun." And Roth conjures an understated, haunting set piece in which the man visits the cemetery and chats with the affable worker who will soon dig his grave. These are glimpses of the Everyman whose story would have been more powerful had Roth...
...hair dye. Although the MSDS measures workplace exposure, which can be far greater than the amount one would encounter at home, the Hazardous Substances Data Bank toxnet.nlm.nih.gov warned that "results of limited repeated dose oral work reported suggests that material may be rather toxic when inhaled or absorbed through skin in repeated small doses." Eek. And that's just one ingredient...