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...youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage girls can be found commiserating about their labia. "i REALLY h8 mine! They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!" reads one comment. Meanwhile, on MakeMeHeal.com, a consumer site that sells special bras and other gear for women recovering from plastic surgery, women of all ages submit photos of their nether regions and ask for feedback on whether they should get nipped and tucked down there. Welcome to the strange new world of female genital cosmetic surgery, where body insecurity issues are fueling a small but growing Western market for such...
...California, increased 20% from 2005 to 2006. In the U.K., the number of surgeries more than doubled between 2002 and 2007. And for the first time, a U.S. medical textbook on women's reproductive health to be published in 2009 will include a chapter devoted entirely to female genital plastic surgery. The media have been doing their part to get the word out too. Post-op patients regularly extol their newly improved sex lives in women's magazines. Dr. Robert Rey, star of E!'s Dr. 90210, is big on vaginoplasty, and this fall NBC's Lipstick Jungle featured...
...into effect until this spring, its announcement this fall is fitting given the University’s recent focus on sustainability. The transportation toll on resources and the environment will no longer be issue. Other small impacts will also become evident, such as a decrease in the amount of plastic bags required by HUL to distribute to students transporting hard copies of books...
...type," says Menachem Amir, a respected Israeli criminologist. "They specialize in violence and extortion. You'd find men like them in the Roman markets of antiquity. Nothing's changed." They weren't quite 007 villains: they fought pitched battles over who would control the $50 million market in recycled plastic bottles...
...result, said Gogan, was that paper, which generates methane, a greenhouse gas that is 75 percent worse for the environment than C02, dropped to record low levels. Gogan touted Harvard’s adoption of single-stream recycling this year, which enables people to indiscriminately recycle paper, plastic, cardboard, and bottles, as responsible for the increased recovery of paper. In addition, the data from monthly waste-audits attests to rising recycling rates on campus—in October, a record-high 54 percent of total refuse was recycled. REPs’ focus on recycling is a component of the Harvard...