Amazing for Her Age

A magazine described a fifty-three-year-old actress as looking “amazing for her age.” Three words in that compliment are load-bearing, and one of them is a countdown clock attached to a woman's face.

Our lead story: the market's sudden rediscovery of women over forty, and why pro-aging campaigns keep selling anti-aging products with new adjectives.

At the Claims Desk, one claim women were asked to believe this week, read verbatim and ruled on. Plus a dispatch from the host's own maintenance life, and one genuinely ridiculous item to close.