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...surgeon who performed the world's first human-heart transplant, South Africa's Christiaan Barnard helped his patients feel years younger. Now the doctor is taking a cosmetic approach to the same idea. He wants to help people take the years off their faces. Next month Barnard, 63, will visit Wall Street to tell investors about his new line of skin-care products, called Glycel, which promises to help erase wrinkles through a scientific process. Barnard and a team of biologists developed the formula at an institute in Basel, Switzerland. Barnard's business partner is a former banker...
...smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change, was made an official disorder, Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz derisively claimed to be suffering from "transchronologism" because he was dissatisfied with his current age and wanted to be younger...
Every year, when the star rose above the horizon just before dawn, the Romans paid bizarre tribute to it by sacrificing dogs with red fur. Seneca the Younger wrote that "the redness of the dog star is deeper, that of Mars milder." Ptolemy called it "reddish," a description also used by Cicero, Horace and other classical authors. The same hue was attributed to the star in cuneiform texts of Babylonia dating as far back...
...understand why their baby is crying or how their doll-like plaything has suddenly developed a will of its own. Finally, these children of children are prone to dropping out and becoming teenage parents themselves. According to one study, 82% of girls who give birth at age 15 or younger were daughters of teenage mothers...
...Revolution was a nightmare. With his wife Zhuo Lin, Deng was exiled to southern Jiangxi province, where he was forced to perform manual labor in a tractor factory and wait on tables in a mess hall. Members of Deng's family were also punished for his political sins. His younger brother Deng Shuping, a city official in Guiyang, was hounded mercilessly by self-appointed Red Guard officials and in despair committed suicide in 1967. His elder son Deng Pufang, a 22-year-old student at Peking University, was crippled for life when he was denied medical treatment for a broken...