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...Beauty celebrates plastic surgery (a.k.a. "aesthetic medicine") with pics of puffed-up lips, tucked-in tummies and ballooning breasts. In January's debut issue: "Botox: Your Face Was Just the Beginning...
Compared with some people, she was lucky. Yusniar, 50, was able to find them and bury them herself, before retreating to the hills where she can keep an eye on the ocean, keep it in its place, from her tent made of blue plastic sheets and Styrofoam fished out of the swamps. Neither she nor the 150 others camping with her near Banda Aceh, capital of the Indonesian province that suffered the worst destruction, are ready to come down. The relief workers haven't yet discovered them, like untold numbers of others. "The water took away everything," she says...
...word in your report about reuse, recycling, sustainability or even compatibility with existing or future products. Each invention seems to be a stand-alone technology, and some even go so far as to be designed to be disposable. As wonderful as it may be to have plastic tattoos on my iPod or have a portable, cloudlike meeting space, I can't help wondering how I will explain to my grandchildren that it was this kind of thinking that filled the world's landfills and depleted our limited resources. Brian A. Pille Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...after seeing a grilled cheese sandwich ostensibly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary garner $28,000 on eBay, he decided to part with the holy Elvis water. Jones was so pleased with the financial results that he has put the actual chalice--which takes the form of a plastic-foam cup--on offer. Top bidders will not get to own the cup, merely earn the privilege to visit and admire it in person...
...UNHCR The UN?s refugee agency is leading the organization?s effort to shelter displaced people and has already delivered tents, kitchen sets and plastic sheeting to thousands in Aceh and Sri Lanka...