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Clarey invoked the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. in court yesterday, claiming his client was judged by the color of her skin rather than the content of her character...
...world's second largest cosmetics market after the U.S., Japan is a huge consumer of skin-care products. Neither this fact?nor consumers' liking for beauty goods formulated with natural ingredients?has been lost on sake brewers, who are rushing to develop skin-care lines featuring their rice wines. With high levels of naturally created amino acids, these New Age elixirs are aimed at moisturizing and protecting the skin without irritation...
...using it for hundreds of years." But nobody expected Japan's brewing firms to push sake's alternative use quite so vigorously. "We wanted to promote sake to people who didn't drink it," says Yasuko Okitsu of Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery (ff-style.com), which has at least three rice-based skin-care lines, with some products made with nonalcoholic sake. "Sake is good for the skin and health; it has a lot of benefits...
...Endorsement from top Japanese celebrities?like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line?hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they'll certainly have plenty of sake left over in which to drown their sorrows...
...minutes later I came down the stairs and Ted swung around to watch me. "Wow," he said in a husky voice, devouring me like so much eye candy with an unabashed lust so palpable that I could feel it on my skin. I also saw he was nervous, and I found that endearing. He shouted good-bye to my family (they seemed subdued, as in the wake of a tornado), ushered me quickly out the door and helped me into a hired sedan with a driver he introduced by name (which impressed...