Economic Meltdown, When You Finally Get the Memo
The economic meltdown came so fast and so furiously, most of us weren’t sure how to even reaction. With the markets plummeting, housing prices on a steep decline and people getting laid off left and right, we were left with mixtures of anger and grief. To at least some degree, life as we knew it [...]
Hot Buttered Corn Syrup and the Changing Public Taste
Time was when you eat or drank something sweet it was usually sugar cane or honey that made it that way. Your sodas, ice cream, cakes, whatever were made with sugar, unless you bought it at the emerging health foods stores. Then it might have been made with honey or molasses. [...]
Hang ‘Em High
Botox Lifts: The Next Breast Thing?
Cosmetic Toxin Used To Improve A Woman’s Posture, ‘Lift Up’ Breasts
Plastic Surgeons Disturbed By Practice, Warn Against ‘Off-Label’ Uses
By STEVE FINK, WCBSTV.COM
NEW YORK (CBS) ― It is one of the most powerful, poisonous, and paralytic proteins known to man, yet why is dermatologic wonder-drug Botox – the cure-all [...]
Tough Times and No Cosmetic Surgery Can Leave You Hanging
Cosmetic surgery business sags as purse strings tighten
After years of steady growth, the multibillion-dollar industry has hit a rough patch. Consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 5, 2008
It used to be a high point of Goldy Anthony’s life. Every six weeks or so, as a kind of personal [...]
Smart and Powerful Women Who Do Foolish Things
At Corra we started running background checks for singles and daters because a fair amount of our female friends insisted we do so. For their protection.
Most of these women were successful women from their mid-thirties to their early fifties. They have money, status and plenty of clout. In business, they [...]