The Global Life: Lunch-Hour Face-Lift

No one knows you've had one, with new nonsurgical techniques

Michelle Biederman has dropped by for a pop before work. "We may as well do the acne scars too," says Dr. Robert Weiss, as he positions the firing end of his Cool Touch laser in a bed of fine lines just below her right eye. Pop! goes the laser, emitting a pulse of invisible light and a white puff of subzero cooling spray. Biederman feels something like the snap of a rubber band. After Weiss blasts the wrinkles under the right eye, he does the left. By the time he gets to the acne scars on her chin, her right eye...

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