Until scientists develop a weapon potent enough to destroy gravity, wrinkles and falling coconuts will continue to serve as humbling reminders of our delicate mortality. Bide your time until gravity's overthrow with today's Groupon: for $139, you get 20 units of Botox at Golla Center for Plastic Surgery's Fox Chapel or Mt. Nebo Commons locations (a $300 value).
Helmed by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Dinakar Golla, the staff at Golla Center for Plastic Surgery help reduce the appearance of unwanted facial lines with Botox injections. Among the most commonly performed cosmetic procedures in the U.S. and during the seventh-inning stretch at baseball games, Botox treatments deliver a series of small injections containing a purified chemical derived from the bacterium clostridium botulinum. Muscles relax as the Botox intercepts messages from nerves that tell muscles to contract. Over time, the overlying skin tends to smooth as result of the decreased muscle activity, which may fade the appearance of wrinkles, crows'-feet, and swimming-goggle imprints.
Most of Golla Center's patients report only minimal discomfort akin to a bug bite from the injections. Effects last three to four months, and desired results typically take four treatments per year to maintain. Additional units are available for $15 each.
Botox may cause serious side effects that can be life threatening, including problems swallowing, speaking, or breathing. Read all safety considerations for Botox here.
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The Groupon Guide to: Big Clocks
Today, most clocks are small enough to be worn on the wrist, but there’s still one island nation where privately owned timepieces are illegal: England. There, they rely on a socialist network of gigantic, publicly viewable chrono sculptures. Here’s a look at the most famous of Britain’s big clocks:
Big Ben: Often called The Pride of England, Big Ben is the world's largest four-faced clock, with each face set to one of the four different time zones of the four original British colonies—America, Australia, The Remainder of the World, and Terabithia. Although Big Ben is technically the name of the bell inside the clock, there is no evidence that this bell actually exists, as a terrifying hourly chiming sound scares away anyone who attempts to get close enough to look.
King Clock: Frequently called The Pride of Great Britain, King Clock stands more than 100 meters (or about 330 feet) tall, and keeps perfect time with the help of an internal atomic clock, developed by Swiss physicists to never accidentally turn into a pinprick-size black hole that would distort space-time in such a way to cause the clock to be slightly inaccurate, as well as erasing gravity. Like all things that are similar, Big Ben and King Clock are hated rivals.
Lil' Ticker, the Clock That Could: Widely known as The Pride of the British Isles, Lil' Ticker is the world's smallest clock tower, standing a paltry 20 feet high when it's not drooping from an accumulation of rainwater, wilting in a particularly warm sunbeam, or just slouching out of melancholy. Will Lil' Ticker one day grow up to be the biggest clock tower in all of England? The answer is no—buildings do not work that way … yet.
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