"Ms. Cheung … was a lingerie designer until she was laid off four months ago, [and] has not found [job] the search to be all that easy. She has cut back on all the nonessentials: the dinners out, the fancy bread, the $200 cut-wash-dry-hot oil treatments of yore (alas, color and other services beyond the scissors were not free at the salon). She had not had even a trim since March, and those wispy ends of her long, dark hair were starting to get on her nerves." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet