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...course, final results in plastic surgery are not absolutely predictable. My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin...
Speculation about who exactly might have leaked news of the Wills-Camilla meeting has turned into something of a London parlor game. The palace was furious at the suggestion that it provided the tip-off. Indeed, Prince Charles was said to be upset that word had filtered out; he surely understood that Diana's friends and fans would find it insensitive to have Parker Bowles meeting Wills before the first anniversary of the princess's death. Another theory has it that friends of Parker Bowles passed on the information in hopes that it would help redeem her reputation among...
...read supermarket tabloid. The trial's two key pieces of evidence, the murder weapon and a series of incriminating jailhouse letters written by Markhasev, were both unearthed with the help of the Enquirer. After reading about the reward, So called the tabloid's Ennis Cosby hot line with a tip that led the L.A.P.D. to the discarded .38-cal. gun, wrapped in a knit cap that contained a strand of Markhasev's hair. Later the Enquirer obtained (through sources it won't reveal) copies of Markhasev's jailhouse letters, in which he virtually confessed to the crime...
...when the number of shared features reaches critical mass, scientists have to consider a direct evolutionary relationship. A dinosaur with feathers would clearly tip the scales: they're by far birds' most characteristic feature, and they had to evolve from somewhere. The skeptics have always contended that birds' ancestors were tree-dwelling lizards, and that feathers evolved to help the lizards flap their way from branch to branch. Fast-running, ground-dwelling dinos like velociraptors would never have needed feathers...
Americans seem happy to share their wealth: they gave $143 billion to charities in 1997, up 7% from 1996, according to figures out last week. Religious and health groups got the most. Tip: instead of cash, donate appreciated stock, which you can deduct at market value without paying capital-gains...