Susanna Says....

Hi, everybody:

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I am still reeling from the Virginia-Sheila debate that flared in TVia #44. Both arguments sound good. I think I'll adopt Virginia's viewpoint on week-days and Sheila's over the week-ends. do I really think? I'll get into the act one of these days, but right now I am living a fascinating TV page of my life....As I hinted in TVia #44, there loomed in the horizon a method to destroy facial hair which was not based on chemicals (such as Nair), neither was it based on female hormones (as we know from our friends who are taking massive doeses of hormones the beard just sits there as unconcerned as ever). It's not based either on the waxing sys- tems that just yank hair off its follicle. And fin- ally, it is not electrolysis which literally "fries" the hair and unfortunately also its surrounding tissues, leading in many cases to scarring.

So, if it is not any of these things....What is it? For a better understanding of the process (and I am writing this while the chemist who discovered the method looks over my shoulder while I type make sure I explain this thing correctly) let us review briefly what makes hair grow, specifically the beard. As we know hair is made of cells, cells which are specialized. Their job is to get together and manufacture hair, in the same manner that kidney cells, for instance, get together to make a kidney. Facial hair in men commences to appear in puberty in the form of light fuzz. It takes anywhere from 5 to 10 years for this facial hair to become adult. And by this I mean tough, dense and ugly. Each hair grows from a follicle which is the living por-