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...course, final results in plastic surgery are not absolutely predictable. My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin...
...other hand, this cousin was an ear-nose-and-throat specialist by training. The doctor who reportedly chopped Paula Jones' schnozz is a plastic surgeon who charges $9,000 a pop. That must be reassuring for Jones; in medical matters, as in so much of high-end commerce in this country, shameless overcharging is a great confidence builder. For the rest of us, it's reassuring to know that this procedure took place in New York rather than California, where Jones lives. If the surgery does happen to result in litigation, the medical-malpractice attorney who defends the surgeon would...
...Wappingers Falls, N.Y. There, Tawana Brawley, a black teenager, proclaimed that a gang of white law officers had abducted and held her for four days in the woods, raping her repeatedly, writing KKK and NIGGER on her belly, smearing her with dog feces and leaving her in a plastic garbage bag outside an apartment complex where her family had once lived. Inconveniently, a witness at that apartment complex had glanced out a window and seen Tawana furtively installing herself in the garbage bag. And a grand jury, after a long, hard look, concluded that there was not a shred...
...know we're not normal," Jerry Yang says with a boyish grin, making a halfhearted effort to straighten up his cubicle for his visitor. It's not much of an office by mogul standards: just a nondescript desk, a couple of cheap plastic milk crates bulging with papers, an old futon. Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking...
...less messy alternative to face-lifts and chemical peels, Botox was first approved by the FDA in 1989 for the treatment of spastic eye muscles. It didn't take long, however, for doctors to discover its "off-label" cosmetic applications. Last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, more than 65,000 Botox procedures were performed--mostly on women, but on increasing numbers of men too. The drug has also been found to be effective in treating vocal-cord disorders, anal fissures, teeth grinding and "problem" sweat glands...