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...myself on the steps of University Hall, staking out the tourists from the statue's right side, a strange scene begins to unfold: I spot a curious-looking old man on the approach. He's wearing a disheveled shirt and tie under a new-looking waterproof jacket, lugging a plastic bag full of garbage satchel-style over his shoulder and holding a half-dozen copies of the Gazette in his other hand. He's plodding steadily toward the statue and as he makes his way past it--get a load of this--he salutes...
...Although plastic surgery is still fairly expensive--with rhinoplasty, or nose jobs, going for about $3,000 and breast implants for about $2,500--costs are decreasing. In addition, as some professionals point out, price is commensurate with satisfaction and, given the traditional income increase with age, procedures become more affordable over time...
...Harvard sophomore and her family, the benefits of plastic surgery outweighed the costs. In fact, Laura (name has been changed at student's request) says it was her father, who is generally careful with money, who first suggest- ed she have her nose redone...
Joel J. Feldman, a Cambridge plastic surgeonand associate clinical professor of surgery atHarvard Medical School, says the psychologicaleffects of such surgery can help patients getahead at work...
...Initial reports suggested that four students were killed and many more were injured when police fired into a crowd of 5,000 in Jakarta -- it was unclear whether they used sharp ammunition or plastic-coated bullets. Police also violently dispersed protesters in other cities. "The student protests are turning out to be much more durable than anyone expected," says Dowell. "There seems to be a web of resistance building up there which hasn't really existed before." Bad news for the aging Suharto, and, in the absence of an obvious successor, it may also bring Indonesia another year of living...