| COEP to get facelift
PUNE: The 153-year-old College of Engineering Pune (COEP), the third-oldest engineering college in the country, is set to be completely remodelled by well-known city-based architect, Christopher Charles Benninger.
Benninger, a post-graduate of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is engaged in construction of a new capital complex project at Thimpu, Bhutan, signed a contract with the COEP on Monday.
The master plan will be ready in three months and the work is expected to take five years or thereabouts.
Speaking to TOI, Benninger said the COEP project would be taken up in a multi-dimensional fashion looking at the aspects of safety, future growth of the campus, preserving heritage and history and bringing the campus and the students close to nature.
A surprising side effect of liposuction
You expect to look thinner after liposuction, but what else can happen? Some patients are experiencing some surprising consequences after lipo. When avid runner Debbie Kubiet had liposuction to smooth out some trouble spots, she got a little more than she bargained for. .
Woman poisons husband to "set herself free"
A woman poisoned her Marine husband with arsenic so she could spend his life insurance policy on high living and plastic surgery, a jury ruled today. Cynthia Sommer, 33, murdered 23-year-old Todd Sommer because she wanted to "set herself free" from the constraints of his military salary and enjoy a more luxurious life. During the trial in San Diego, California, friends and work colleagues of the mother-of-four testified that she threw wild parties, paid $5,400 dollars to have her breasts enlarged and indulged in casual sex with multiple partners in the weeks following her husband's collapse. .
American Academy of Dermatology Association Commends New Jersey Legislature for Passing Bill To Repeal the State's ...
The American Academy of Dermatology Association (Academy Association) urges New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine to follow the lead of the state's legislature and sign a bill repealing the unpopular tax on cosmetic medical procedures enacted in June 2004. The "Cosmetic Medical Procedures Gross Receipts Tax" imposes a 6 percent tax on a range of medical procedures that the state deems cosmetic, including cosmetic and dermatologic surgery, laser skin resurfacing, laser hair removal, cosmetic soft tissue fillers and injections, hair transplants, and cosmetic dentistry. The New Jersey state legislature unanimously approved a bill to repeal this tax on December 14, 2006. "While the original intent of this tax was to fund indigent care in the state's hospital system, our understanding is that the amount of revenue generated by this tax in its first year was only a fraction of the revenue that was expected when this bill was passed," said dermatologist Stephen P.
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