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...affordable beauty boutique--a perfect example of a new category of consumer goods that falls somewhere between mass market and prestige. That's why Fiske, a boyish-looking 43-year-old in a dark suit, is at the Hudson Hotel: he has just launched a new line of skin-care products developed by dermatologist to the stars Patricia Wexler. "This," says the soft-spoken Fiske, "represents another step in the transformation of Bath & Body Works from raspberry shower gel to a modern apothecary of beauty and well-being...
...Muggle and part magic. A love-befuddled boy talks to a character from his favorite TV show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made of the skin of a dog. Link casts her spells like an expert; these tales are far darker, crueler and sadder than their premises suggest...
...there's also supposed to be some evidence of maturity, and at least in this regard Plans tries way too hard. Gibbard, who writes all Death Cab's lyrics, spends a lot of time waxing nostalgic for a past that wasn't that long ago (Summer Skin, Someday You Will Be Loved), and when he looks to the future, he sees mostly death. I Will Follow You into the Dark opens with "Love of mine, someday you will die." What Sarah Said is set in an ICU "that reeked of piss and 409" and espouses the yearbook wisdom that "love...
...reason tanning is so seductive, according to dermatologist Richard Wagner, an author of the study, is that it gives many people an improved body image, despite the fact that they are placing themselves at high risk for skin cancer, including often lethal melanoma. There may be a physical side to the addiction too. Sunlight interacts with the skin to produce endorphins, natural opiates that send the brain a message of well-being...
GIVE THEM A REASON TO BITE The 2006 X-Rap lures are the latest from Rapala, a Vaaksy, Finland--based firm. The translucent bodies' holographic foil will dazzle your prey, and the scalelike detail is beneath a transparent skin, so it won't wear away. The $14 model, top, works best for bigger game, such as grouper...