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  • Baby Boomers Pay For Six Pack In A Syringe (Baby Boomer Vanity Sinks To New Low)

    08/19/2007 1:41:36 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 26 replies · 1,662+ views
    Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 19/08/2007 | Philip Sherwell
    Baby boomers pay for six pack in a syringe By Philip Sherwell, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:00am BST 19/08/2007 With his six-pack stomach, bulging chest and bull-like shoulders, the muscleman in the newspaper advertisement displays the sort of rippling torso that adorns the cover of men's fitness journals. But there is one difference. From the neck up, Dr Jeffry S Life is a balding 67-year-old physician. His physique is the product not of a computer touch-up but a controversial American "ageing management" technique, that often includes a cocktail of human growth hormones and testosterone. Some 13,000 clients have so far...
  • Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops

    05/02/2007 6:09:19 AM PDT · by RDTF · 156 replies · 5,074+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | May 2, 2007 | Teresa Wiltz
    When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials. In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation. "I have always been an advocate for nonviolence," she writes, "and I have stood...