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...Beauté's black satin nail polish is one of the brand's best-selling products. Costume jewelry from Lanvin, a fashion insider must-have, features black ribbons and stones. French perfumer Kilian Hennessy, who introduced a fragrance collection last November called By Kilian, has set himself apart from the trend of transparent scents by introducing a more complex and mysterious composition called L'Oeuvre Noire...
Eastern Europeans have long thought that just sitting in naturally occurring salt caves could relieve allergies, asthma, eczema, hypertension, ulcers and stress. Recently, they've built simulated caves in the U.S. The Chicago area, because of its large Polish population, is the epicenter of the trend. Several spas in other parts of the country have installed salt breathing rooms. And the Florida-based Silesia Group builds salt rooms for private homes and sells portable salt caves for the backyard. "The atmosphere helps regulate your breathing, gets the stress out," says Madzia Stoklosa, whose Megi's Spa Salt Cave in Park...
...deadly roadside bombing in southern Baghdad. That last incident raised the number of U.S. military fatalities in Iraq to 4,000. While an American military spokesman pointed out that "no casualty is more or less significant than another," the timing of the ramped-up violence is telling. The trend comes as American troop strength - increased to implement the vaunted "surge" - continues to decline from heights reached in November...
Though medicine has traditionally been a high-paying profession, Flier noted the "recent trend that starting salaries in medicine are lagging increases in educational debt." He has made expanding financial aid a priority since becoming dean last summer, and has said that he has firsthand experience with the costs of medical education because his daughter recently attended medical school...
...this makes me wonder if perhaps ours is the ropes-course generation. We appear to be of an age in which we are ready to jump on the trend of any train at a moment’s notice, all for the sake of appearing as though we are connected to one another. The solution is to call for another lap-sit, and then another, and then another...