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...That's a trend being repeated across Europe, according to anecdotal evidence from doctors. Each month, the brothers Viel criss-cross Europe to work at clinics in Norway, Italy and Ireland. Corporación Dermoestetica, a Spanish group with 32 centers in Spain, this year will open clinics in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. "There is no doubt that cosmetic surgery is growing in popularity," says Giulio Injianni, secretary of the German Association of Plastic Surgeons. "People are more confident about this kind of medicine because of media exposure." He says his own patient load has doubled in the past five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nip and Tuck Trade | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...domain of middle-aged women, either. Britain's Transform Medical Group, which has 16 clinics, says two-thirds of its patients are under age 40, and half of those are under 30. Men are also increasingly seeking to enhance their looks by scalpel and syringe. The Viel twins and Corporación Dermoestetica say 30% of their patients are male. "We see more and more men around 50 coming in," says Yann Levet, who operates two clinics in France. "They say they are feeling strong competition from younger players at work." Sometimes they are simply lazy. Steven, 45, a retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nip and Tuck Trade | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Cats & Rats. A project of the Chilean government's Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Development Corporation), Huachipato will be the west coast's first completely integrated steel plant. Under construction since early 1947, the $83 million plant is being financed by Export-Import Bank loans totaling $48 million, by stock sales to Fomento and private Chilean interests, and by credits from U.S. firms (e.g., Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc.), which are supplying equipment and technical know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Dream Come True | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Dynamite. One upshot of the whole situation has been startling activity in South American airlines. In Argentina, Italian-financed, eight-year-old Corporación Sud Americana de Servicios Aéreos was suddenly reorganized eight months ago, wound up with a new vice president: Ramón Castillo Jr., son of Argentina's President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Dynamite in South America | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Corporación now flies three broken-down Italian Macchi seaplanes over 850 route miles. But it has dreams of much bigger things, is dickering for more equipment and a route to Rio. Meantime the arrival of a Spanish mission in Buenos Aires started the jolting rumor that Corporacion is the hub of a new transatlantic airline from Argentina to Europe-and Berlin. Thus, Corporación packs political dynamite aplenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Dynamite in South America | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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