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by rba

Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 10:16:26 AM EST

Renai Merle/WaPo: Anthrax Vaccine Contract Voided, Thwarting Administration. "Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration's two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling an $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing."
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Via jeninRI. Image by Thor Swift/WaPo.
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[More @ today's DailyNews].

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Open: I need a new drug | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

Yet on the Front Page of the Wall Street Journal (5.00 / 1) (#1)

yesterday, there is a little ditty "$320, 0.5 Ounces of Cocoon Extract to Rub on Your Face."

Seems as some Americans have no problem at all opening their wallets for exorbitantly priced skin products.

"There's no price resitstance," says Deborah Walters, a senior vice president at Saks Fifth Avenue who oversees cosmetics. "Our customers are after the newest skin-care products based on the latest technology."

You bet.

It's all based on research...it seems... as the vice president of Orlane's sales and education explains. For example, the newest miracle ingredient is soybean cuticle extract based on research into the Okinawans, "whose fish and soybean diets have been credited for the large number of centenarians on the Japanese island."

Of course, the sentence that had me howling with laughter yesterday was this:
They lived to their 100s and died wrinkle-free."

I dunno, I just kept having images of way-too-rich antique women being pulled from a dryer and shaken out like so much polyester.

by Cho on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 10:29:13 AM EST

A link for the curious (5.00 / 3) (#2)

thanks to taxidermy, this bobcat won't ever get wrinkles

Here's a link for the curious. In a way, I'm kind of surprised that there isn't somebody out there trying to sell taxidermy as a means of staying wrinkle-free into eternity.

by silence on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 01:53:12 PM EST
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: Thanks, Silence! (5.00 / 3) (#3)

Shsssssh.... we could make a fortune.
Polyester and taxidermy as the new anti-wrinkling beauty ingredients.
(Bet the cosmetic industry is already on to it!)

by Cho on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 01:56:25 PM EST
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Me? (5.00 / 2) (#4)

I earned every damn wrinkle and grey hair I have. And am proud of each and every one of them. Definitely not the market they are trying to appeal to.

by kfred on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 07:33:45 PM EST