Here There and Everywhere

Yesterday I posted a photo of the skywalk, featured on Good Morning America’s 7 Wonders of the U.S. series and people wondered what the first two are.

The first wonder selected was the National Mall and National Park in Washington DC, a celebration of Democracy, “where American voices are heard.”

The second - and by far my favorite - was the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve, a brutal place where there are still huge herds of caribou, shaggy buffalo, polar bear . . . and where George Bush tells us we wouldn’t be paying so much for gas if we would only give him and the oil companies the go-ahead to go in and exploit the oil resources there. (See #1 George Bush - the American people raised their voices and said “NO!”)

The Grand Canyon was the third wonder announced.

There are still four more wonders to be announced. Good Morning America comes on America Plus Monday - Friday in the afternoon, maybe two or three in the afternoon, in case you want to catch the rest, or you can just click on the blue hypertext above where it says Good Morning America, and you will go to the ABC website for the Seven Wonders.

From BBC Health News comes this report on a face cream that really works.

The problem with creams that claim to prevent wrinkles, or to reverse aging, is that they make claims like “visible difference in 7 days.” I buy them, try them, and after seven days, I may not see a visible lessening of wrinkles, but on the other hand, neither do I know what I might have looked like if I didn’t use the cream. Few of these claims are ever tested scientifically.

You tend to think that the more you pay, the better the cream. It isn’t necessarily so.

Face creams under the microscope

An “unprecedented” clinical trial on a high street anti-ageing cream may change the face of the skin care market in this country, dermatologists say.

The active ingredients in the cream include white lupin - a flower extract - and retinyl palmitate, on top of a plain moisturising base. The trial will not establish which, if any, is effective, but how the combination works together.

You can read the entire article HERE.