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SKIN When estrogen levels plummet after menopause, skin cells lose their elasticity and youthful appearance. Hair can become dryer and thinner. Though HRT can combat these hallmark signs of aging, the hormones do so at a high price. Creams and moisturizers may not be as effective, but they won't pose any serious health risks. And there's an ever expanding array of cosmetic procedures...
...slow change afoot, even though female buyers still account for only about 5% of guitar sales. Last year Tish Ciravalo, a bass guitar-playing mother of two girls, founded DAISY ROCK GIRL GUITARS, a company that designs instruments for the female player. The Daisy Rock axes have thinner necks and smaller, easy-to-hold bodies in such unapologetically girlie shapes as hearts and daisies--see left. Starting at $239 (including purple gig bag), the guitars are selling at a pace of several hundred a month. Traditional guitar companies, meanwhile, have begun to market signature lines for female artists. Whether...
...Sarah Bouser, 17, shopping for clothes was never fun. Unlike her thinner friends, she always had trouble finding fashionable clothes that fit her full-size figure. Then she discovered Torrid, the first mall-based boutique for plus-size teens. "Before, I wore a lot of boys' clothes," she says, browsing the Torrid store in Brea, Calif., one of the chain's six outlets. "[Now] I feel more feminine...
...hospitals, preventing staff from treating their own patients. Journalists are intimidated to prevent them from bearing witness to these crimes, and an entire population continues to be suffocated and assaulted. Never before has the veil concealing the true nature of the prevailing relationship between Israel and the Palestinians seemed thinner...
...Fastow and his investors got spe-deep in trouble. As the volume of deals increased to meet Skilling's aggressive growth targets, the returns got thinner and thinner, and the hard assets behind the first partnerships were later supplanted by stock or guarantees from Enron...