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Jaulin's goal is for his clientele to acquire "a natural and harmonious beauty" by "respecting the skin." "There are so many different energies around the face, and if you destroy them by using the wrong products, you weaken the skin." To avoid that, he uses only Dr. Hauschka's line, agreeing with its philosophy that products work internally and externally. He also offers his alternative on the antiaging process?the Laser Aramis 2. "The word laser makes everyone nervous," he admits. "But this doesn't affect the epidermis?the first four layers of skin?but affects the dermis [underneath...
...investigation may also signal a power play by Hu ahead of the Communist Party's annual confab in October. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, hailed from Shanghai and seeded the government with prot?g?s including Party boss Chen, who had been mentioned for possible promotion to Beijing. A hometown scandal could weaken the influence of the so-called "Shanghai gang," allowing Hu to install his own acolytes in positions of power. "The Chinese leadership understands that releasing the details of corruption in Shanghai just before the October meeting will have a big impact," says Joseph Cheng, a China expert at City University...
...There is a lot of positive development outside of the U.S.," says Stuart Schweitzer, managing director and global-markets strategist at JPMorgan Asset & Wealth Management. Add in the specter of towering deficits in the U.S. budget and current account, which could ultimately weaken the dollar, and the idea of diversifying overseas becomes even more attractive...
...press for a cease-fire has been based on the hope that the Israeli military campaign could batter Hizballah to the point that it would agree to surrender its independent military capability. Not only would such an achievement reassert Israel's power of deterrence, but it would also weaken Iran's. One of the cautionary notes against a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities had been the probability that Tehran's retaliation would include a massive missile attack on Israel by its Hizballah proxy...
...searched for launchers last week, Israeli intelligence pored over all the aerial photos of Lebanon taken by Israeli drones over the past six years, looking for evidence of bunker building so that pilots or ground troops could take out the rocket launchers likely held within. The idea is to weaken Hizballah as much as possible before a cease-fire takes hold and, more urgently, to stop Hizballah's rocketing of Israeli towns, which by the end of last week had taken 15 lives, on top of the 19 soldiers who have died in the conflict. Olmert knows that the longer...