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...feel about plastic surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beth Teitell: On Not Looking Old | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...ethically against it. [But] the more people who get plastic surgery and have injectables, basically the more who have to. The CDC has not yet used the word epidemic, but it really is like an epidemic in that it goes from one person to the next. You know, in 2007 there were 11.7 million cosmetic procedures done. That's a 457 percent increase since 1997. So if your friends or people around you are having work done and you're not, overnight it's as if you've aged ten years. If you don't do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beth Teitell: On Not Looking Old | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...take a job as head of a foundation: "The job offered much-needed financial security, a point Michelle was pushing. This was also a pattern in their marriage - she playing the role of the industrious, paycheck-retrieving ant, he the role of the devil-may-car grasshopper. Unafraid of plastic, he had a habit of putting professional expenses on his credit card and neglecting to file for reimbursement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michelle Obama, A Life | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Shutter Shades, a brand of sunglasses inspired by Kanye West and marketed since 2007, harken back to the bright colors of the 80s. As the name suggests, they feature strips of plastic rather than lenses and have revolutionized celebrity-inspired stupidity...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Trend Alert: Shutter Shades | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...simply could not wrap my mind around the fact that a couple thin pieces of rubber should be trusted to uphold my hulking 50-pound frame. All that stood between the delicate skin of my knee-caps and the jagged battlefield of a sidewalk was some bouncy plastic? Sorry, not happening...

Author: By Kate E. Cetrulo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life’s Simple Pleasures | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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