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• But a Boob Job IS an Investment

  Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:57 PM By Rosa Brooks
  
  In his " Human Nature " blog, Slate 's Will Saletan rejoices over the recession's toll on the cosmetic surgery business and expresses horror at the idea that some suckers (social parasites?) still refinance their homes to get cosmetic surgery during economic Read More...
  Filed under: Botox, children, health care, parenting, plastic surgery, women, work, workplace equity

• We Are All Under 40 Now

  Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:45 PM By Hanna Rosin
  
  This excessive Botoxing and retouching has something to do with the collapse of the classes, or at least the shifting in what used to define the super-rich. "The 'luxury' experience has become thoroughly middle-class, even prole (two words: 'Gucci T-shirt')," Read More...
  Filed under: Botox, plastic surgery, prostitution

• Peddling Botox

  Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:38 PM By Liza Mundy
  
  Ah, yes, the unsolicited-Botox pitch. My experience wasn't nearly so harrowing or prolonged as Melinda's, but a couple of years ago I went to a dermatologist for a small, straightforward medical matter. It was hard not to notice the large photo on his Read More...
  Filed under: Botox, plastic surgery, Women's Bioethics project

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