Word: plastic
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...talk about plastic surgery. How do you feel about that? You write about that in the book. I think it's a perfectly fine option for people who choose it. I really do. The people who have it over and over and over again, that's something different. That's on a much deeper level than saying, You know what? I've never liked my nose. I think I'm going to fix it. Or, My boobs are down to my waist. I think I'll get them nice and perky again...
While much of the country spends the day after Easter sweeping up plastic grass and nursing a Peeps overdose, the White House welcomes an invasion of children. Thousands of young people will stream onto the South Lawn this Easter Monday for the White House Easter Egg Roll, one of the oldest presidential traditions and the largest annual event held at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (See top 10 things you didn't know about Easter...
Most of us have fond memories of Easter egg hunts. Crawling through the grass on our hands and knees, scanning under park benches for glimpses of colored plastic, being shoved by some clambering kid who stole all the eggs we had clearly seen first—yes, those were the innocent days when we didn’t know or care about the essentially pagan origins of this holy day ritual...
...hunt began at 3 p.m., with everyone rushing all around the courtyard with plastic shopping bags, cardboard boxes, and other substitutes for baskets...
...reek of unwashed toilets spilled into the street in the neighborhood of unpainted cinder block houses. Out on the main road, hundreds of residents banged plastic buckets and blocked the path of irate drivers while children scoured the surrounding area for government trucks. Finally, the impatient crowd launched into a high-pitched chant, repeating one word at fever pitch: "Water, Water, Water...