| Facing the future
Think Botox is a beauty step too far? How about a skull-lift? Or a fat-harvested bust augmentation? Liz Hancock forecasts what the future holds for women and the beauty industry. Illustration by Steven Wilson Global skincare companies boast science laboratories better funded than most universities, so it's little wonder that the cutting edge of aesthetic innovation comes from within their corridors. And if you are already sceptical about the extremes of the modern beauty industry, well, things are going to get weirder. From stem-cell injections to skull-lifts, the industry is on the cusp of a series of futuristic developments that promise to transform your appearance. The focus is on looking and staying younger for longer - whatever the cost. So brace yourselves: this is what the future looks like.
The BIG Immigration Debate
I welcome immigration but believe that people who come here should attempt and be seen to be attempting to adhere to our codes and culture and not force over the top issues pushing our traditional tollerance and hospitality to the wire. I agree with a previous comment about Christmas and our traditions, Birmingham Bull Ring Centre did not have christmas because it was unacceptable to other cultures, totally ignoring that this is unacceptable to christian brits. Live and let live I love to celebrate other cultural traditions but expect other cultures to respect the host country traditions. .
Row over Irish plan to invite the Queen
The Queen is set to become the first British monarch for almost a century to visit the Republic of Ireland. Royal Family: News, videos and photos An invitation from Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, looks certain to be issued later this year or early next year. .
Stomach ailment link to sweetener
People who eat large quantities of a type of sweetener could be putting themselves at risk of an upset stomach, experts said. Sorbitol, which is widely used in "sugar-free" products like chewing gum, sweets and some cereals, could cause severe weight loss, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, they warned. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), doctors from Berlin said patients eating the equivalent of 14 or more sticks of gum a day suffered severe symptoms. They said medics should ask patients about their intake of the sweetener if there was unexplained weight loss and other such problems. Sorbitol (also called E420) is a bulk sweetener that has about the same sweetness as sugar. It can be added to foods in similar quantities to sugar but contains around a third fewer calories.
Dale Dauten: Try disorganization chart, Management 2.0 suggests
Take some issue facing the company and create a blog around it. Let everyone opine about and debate the issue, and see what results. You should have seen the reactions to that suggestion. It was like I suggested that they climb naked into a cement mixer, just to see what happened. Or, more accurately, as if I had suggested to a zookeeper that he let all the animals out of their cages, as an experiment. .
Ex-Democrat takes over as head of county GOP
Joan M. Becker's first political campaign was at age 16, when she worked for the 1974 re-election of Democratic Gov. Marvin Mandel. Her father, Frank Lupashunski, is a registered Democrat who taught sociology and government and politics for three decades at her alma mater, Howard High School, where Democratic state Sen. James N. Robey, a former county executive, was his student years earlier. .
Sam Rauch: Oberlin Grad, Williamsburg Loft-Dweller
As a total fucking cliche who attented both Trinity School (gasp!) and Oberlin College (where I majored in art history! And cinema studies! Oh no!) and who now lives in... wait for it... a bougie Williamsburg loft (for which my parents pay the rent, naturally), I must insist that you cease making fun of Oberlin immediately. Just because we're a bunch of pretentious, entitled, politically-correct, self-satisfied, bleeding-heart, postmodern burlesque and street art enthusiast douchenozzley fags doesn't mean we don't have feelings. If anything, we have far too many feelings. Feelings we have learned to express thanks to four years of professors who humored us when we raised our hands to start a sentence with "I kinda feel like..." But really. If you cut us, do we not bleed?* If you insult us, do we not cry ourselves to sleep while gently caressing our diplomas and our limited-edition Supreme hoodies? ** I cannot bear this abuse any longer.
today's blogs
Liberal Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog anticipates right-wingers spotlighting the arrests. But, he notes, "apparently no warrantless wiretapping led to these arrests, no torture of suspects in overseas prisons, nothing liberals have objected to in the Patriot Act. Remember that when you're told that these arrests prove that we can't trust liberals and Democrats." Steve Benen at the liberal Carpetbagger Report concurs: The capture was thanks to "intelligence gathering and law-enforcement efforts — the very techniques the Bush White House has consistently ridiculed as ineffective in counterterrorism." Matt Johnston at Going to the Mat notes that the feds had a gun dealer as an informant: "I wonder how much of these 'secret' arrangements are happening. Working with gun dealers makes sense for the authorities and could be much more widespread than one might think." Read more about the Fort Dix plot.
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