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...number of women getting these procedures, which often cost upwards of $5,000 at clinics from Texas to Kansas to 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plastic Surgery Below the Belt | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Where, might you ask, does demand and supply of the commodity come into play? Maybe in an economics textbook somewhere. Perhaps the credit crisis will slow demand somewhat, but certainly not enough to split the price in half. True, recession may be upon us, and that might help justify lower oil prices, but that fear is not the real story behind the fall. Remember: it was not great prosperity that doubled the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Caused the Big Slide in Oil Prices | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...medium of form and meaning, reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of chance and filth? In Part 2 of 2666 the philosophy professor, whose name is Amalfitano, recreates one of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made artworks: he hangs up a geometry textbook outside his house by a string so that the elements can gradually corrupt and destroy its tidy diagrams. He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe. It is not one of Bola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...order to take higher-level biostatistics courses, students would need to build a solid foundation of basic theory and methods that only a traditional textbook-based course would provide, Testa said. For this reason, the faculty recommends that those pursuing doctoral degrees or hoping for positions in academia study under the more traditional curriculum...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard School of Public Health Overhauls Curriculum | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...read pretty much every e-mail I get. That request you sent out for a Science B-35 textbook? I didn’t answer it, but I read it. That time you accidentally invited all of Eliot on vacation with you? Hilarious. See you in Cabo...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Don't Want Your PRS Clicker & I Don't Have a Stamp | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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