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...Designer Disgrace Re "Paper, Plastic or Prada?" [Aug. 27]: years ago, my Italian mother-in-law gave me a string bag (which I still use) to carry my groceries in, explaining how deplorable it was to waste all those plastic and paper bags from the market. Notwithstanding the silliness of the label-conscious, how could anyone buy a reusable bag (Hermès') that stows in a calfskin case? The suffering that calves go through for the production of this vanity item is unconscionable. Nancy Pennington, SEATTLE...
...open sack scattered with ribs, femurs and broken skulls. "Oh yeah," says Ruxin, looking over. "Thirteen years later, they're still finding new bodies round here every day." We walk around to the front of the church where a raised white-tiled plinth is scattered with dead flowers and plastic wrap. In its center is another stairwell. "If you want the full tour ... ," Ruxin trails off. I descend. At the foot of the stairs is a narrow corridor. The walls are lined with shelves, floor to the ceiling, stacked with neat piles of bones and skulls. "There...
...metal cup) - a remake of an old design, one that doctors were using 40 years ago. In the 1970s, the metal-on-metal construction was abandoned by orthopedists worldwide because it wasn't very stable and failed to relieve pain as reliably as the current metal-on-plastic standard, a metal stem and ball in a plastic cup, which has cured so many millions of their hip arthritis. But about four years ago, the metal-on-metal design was re-introduced in the U.S. with some small structural modifications. Manufacturers are now hyping and marketing it hard to orthopedists...
...interested in seeing this patient because I'd never done one of the new hips. My teacher had done them in the old days, thousands of them, but he abandoned them immediately and completely when the first metal-on-plastic hips came out. "It would be foolish to go back" is what he'd said 20 years ago when I asked him about the old designs - I took his word for it and, so far, have never regretted it. I also knew from my own experience, having done more than 1,000 hip surgeries by that point, that the metal...
...Number of hours it took to sell out of Anya Hindmarch's I'M NOT A PLASTIC BAG canvas totes at New York City's Whole Foods