Word: cosmeticize
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Yet in fact 80 percent of the implant operations were performed on healthy women for purely cosmetic reasons. Now many of these women are suffering life-threatening illnesses because of the dangers of the implants. Furthermore, much of this could have been averted if the Dow Corporation had not covered...
Frightening anecdotes abound. Kali Korn, 41, of Los Angeles came down with scleroderma last year, a decade after she had silicone implants inserted for cosmetic reasons. The skin has so constricted around her fingers that she is virtually unable to move them. Doctors removed the implants in March, and she...
Night puts a dark mask on this city's abandoned row houses, gutted factories and boarded shops, a failed cosmetic for a busted-up prizefighter of a town that crumpled along with its industries. The forces that flattened Camden may be the same ones that have pounded scores of other...
If properly focused, these measures could be sensible and even effective. But they are little more than cosmetic surgery -- a nip here, a tuck there. What the U.S. economy desperately needs, many experts now argue, is the equivalent of open-heart surgery. The key to the economic transformation: basic investment...
Perhaps, Mr. Connor and Mr. Plotz would recognize this as the Democratization of the Thighs and surely it is. But unlike other features of the Gapification of America, this great leveling allows for true individuality--in (some) body types, not in fashion. Our bodies naturally make us individuals and the...