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...coming in and moaning, 'Why can't you just take some from here and put it in there?' " he recalls. "Now we are doing just that." Steven Soll, 38, a Los Angeles financial planner, is looking forward to having fat suctioned from under his double chin and reinserted to strengthen his jawline. "I could go out and spend $20,000 on a car to make myself feel better," he explains, "or I could spend $3,000 to change something that has always bothered me." An older, simpler method to smooth the skin involves the injection of protein collagen into scars...
Paris ordered three minesweepers and support ships to join a French naval detachment that is gathering in the region. That display of muscle is designed to strengthen France's hand in its continuing diplomatic standoff with Iran. The two countries severed relations last month after France blockaded Iran's embassy in Paris, where an interpreter suspected of terrorism is hiding. Iran responded by surrounding the French embassy in Tehran and holding 15 French citizens hostage inside...
...sheet music. According to their creation myths, Australia was literally sung into existence by ancestral creatures. They wandered over the vast land mass during the dreamtime, giving names to animals, plants, hills and depressions. Re- enactments of these legends are the walkabouts, aboriginal cross-country amblings that not only strengthen ties to the old ways but mark territories. As long as the walker sticks to his own songlines, he can have friends in far- flung places. Nearly every geological feature represents a sacred and evolved musical narrative. "A spaghetti of Iliads and Odysseys" is the way this captivating phenomenon...
Ronald Reagan expressed this sentiment in his Berlin Wall speech last month. "We welcome change and openness," said the President, "for we believe freedom and security go together -- that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace." Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne Ridgway, though skeptical about Gorbachev's rhetoric, is likewise upbeat about the consequences if his domestic reforms turn out to be successful. "I can foresee our entire postwar agenda being accomplished," she says, "since much of what we've been trying to do is to get the Soviet Union to become more open...
...rest of his first year at the academy. His greatest fear was that his injuries would prevent him from winning a Marine commission. At home, he devised his own peculiar rehabilitation program: he made jump after jump off the six-foot-high roof of the family garage to strengthen his damaged legs. No pain, no gain...