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...trading boom in baseball cards has given us series featuring soap stars, Desert Storm heroes, rabbis, drug-sniffing dogs, fugitives and now a new 196- card set picturing missing children. What next? Broken hearts? Top 10 organ transplants...
...entered the Body Shop, I felt a rush of nostalgia for my native New York and the candy counter at Bloomingdale's. Lined up along the green marble walls (the eco-freak's color of choice) were glycerin soaps, bath beads and little soaps shaped like fruit, some in glass candy jars and all assorted in at least eight different colors. The whole thing looked like a nice little country buffet. Just don't eat the soap...
...only difference between some of the items, like the bath beads that were "especially for men" because they came in silver and black as opposed to the popular but wimpy pastels. The Real Man, I guess, wants to seem macho even if he hugs trees and buys endangered soap...
...truly organic unless it looks like pond sludge. Never fear. The Body Shop also carries rough-hewn products like Henna Cream Shampoo, which looks like a jar of copper-colored vaseline mixed with mud, because it contains no artificial colors or color stabilizers. The "Men's Rhassoul Mud Soap" resembles a small cement brick. For women, there's "Wheatscrub Soap", made of wheatgerm and cinnamon, which is supposed to "exfoliate" your skin, and a milk bath that contains oats and avocado oil. Apparently the Body Shop doesn't know the inside of the body from the outside...
DAYS OF OUR LIVES: ONE STORMY NIGHT (NBC, Jan. 10, 8 p.m. EST). Just before presenting the annual Soap Opera Digest awards, NBC tries something new: a special prime-time episode of its popular daytime serial. Hold your breath: if it scores well in the ratings, nighttime may soon be awash in soapsuds...