Normally, such face-lifts don't occur until two to three years after a launch.

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The company spent the next three years trying face-lifts, experimenting with on-line soap operas and blurbs about cool kids, to no avail.

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Temporary numbness or loss of feeling at the site of the incision is fairly common in face-lifts and tummy tucks, though it's rarely permanent.

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That is a mix quite different from American Media's Star, which focuses purely on celebrities and publishes photos and stories about face-lifts, weight gain and botched relationships.

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Even neglected east-coast and Gulf-of-Mexico ports are getting hasty face-lifts.

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The company hired the rebranding shop Hornall Anderson (giver of face-lifts to Ghirardelli Chocolate and Starbucks), which used a batik motif to give the new products a Gauguinesque feel.

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They are not--and never will be--medical facilities, but several of them have teamed up with their fellow "alternative" practitioners, acupuncturists, to offer nonsurgical "face-lifts" with, they claim, dramatic results.

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We don't necessarily think you will be in the market for any or all of these things, but we hope you find the analysis on everything from face-lifts to vintage cars compelling.

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For one thing, face-lifts take time.

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