| Learning Cuts, Curls And Colors
Like most teenage girls, Brittany Taylor, 18, likes fixing hair and applying makeup. She especially likes doing it with her friends throughout the schoolday without getting into trouble with the teacher. That's because Taylor is one of 120 students enrolled in East Bay High School's cosmetology program. "I enjoy working with color and makeup," Taylor said. "They give me the chance to show my creativity." In the program for three years, Taylor, a senior, is working part time at Hair Carvers in Apollo Beach as an apprentice with Katrina Langford, who graduated from East Bay in 1992. "I am getting her ready to work on the floor," Langford said. "When she graduates from high school, gets her license and completes our apprentice program, she'll get her own chair in the salon." Participating in a high school cosmetology training program gives students a great advantage, teacher Rebecca Zink said.
Kids book explores mom's plastic surgery
Divorce. Bullies. Foster care. There are books for children on just about every tough subject these days. But mommy's plastic surgery? A Florida plastic surgeon has written about just that in “My Beautiful Mommy," a picture book due out April 28 that tries to calm the fears of kids with parents getting tummy tucks, breast enhancement procedures and nose jobs. Dr. Michael Salzhauer said so many moms brought kids to their appointments that he was motivated to stock up on lollipops in his Bal Harbour, Fla., office. In “My Beautiful Mommy," he explains mommy's recuperation, changing look and desire for plastic surgery. .
Teams aim to grow ears, skin for war wounded
WASHINGTON: Teams of university scientists backed by US government funds hope to grow new skin, ears, muscles and other body tissue for troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defence Department said on Thursday.
The $250mn effort aims to address the Pentagon's unprecedented challenge of caring for troops returning from the war zones with multiple traumatic injuries, many of which would have been fatal years ago.
“We've had just over 900 people, men, some women with amputations of some kind or another since the start of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq," said Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of defence for health affairs. Many have also suffered burns, spinal cord injuries and vision loss.
“Getting these people up to where they are functioning and reintegrated, employed, able to help their families and be fully participating members of society, this is our task," he said.
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