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...Hetong, a surgeon at Beijing's No. 402 Hospital, is a pioneer of limb-extension surgery for patients disfigured by birth defects or injury. Since he started offering cosmetic leg-lengthening a few years ago, he has performed more than 600 operations. His patients have grown by an average of 9 cm. More than 70% of the women are college educated. Some who have studied overseas felt inferior because of their lack of stature. "For them, the main purpose of the operation is not to improve their physical health," says Xia. "It is to help their psychological growth...
...feminist—somewhere between the pioneer figures and the second generation—I was deeply involved in rethinking the French canon,” Schor told the Harvard Gazette shortly after she came to the University...
FEEL THE BURN Are the VCR's days numbered? Pioneer and Philips have introduced the first DVD "burners" to create discs that can be read on most DVD players. Though built using competing technologies, Pioneer's DVR-7000 and Philips' DVDR1000 have one thing in common: a daunting $2,000 price...
...American Association in 1884, blacks were subsequently barred from playing big-league ball for the next 63 years. Branch Rickey, the most eloquent of baseball men, brought Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Rickey and the Dodgers' captain, Pee Wee Reese, lent magnificent support to Robinson, the pioneer. Others did not. Several Dodgers demanded to be traded, rather than play on a fine team beside a black...
...talk, entitled “Race, Gender & Abortion: Pro-Life Politics in the 21st Century,” Jefferson questioned the intentions and priorities of famous birth control pioneer and family planning proponent Margaret Sanger. Jefferson, who graduated from the Medical School in 1951, said that Sanger believed in poverty impacting people’s genes, rendering people “disgenic...