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...devices and surgeons to stop inserting them in women. In Spain and Australia health officials quickly followed suit; Canada, Britain and France are reviewing their policies. The decision stunned millions of women worldwide. "They are angry, frustrated and concerned," said Dr. Norman Cole, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. "They want to know what is going...
Somewhat more relevant to the consumer is the information that they don't test on animals and that they provide refills if you bring your old package back (so as not to waste plastic by buying...
Fifteen dollars is a lot to pay for a wooden comb which isn't significantly different from a drugstore plastic one. Crayons or pencil leads stuck in inch-thick twigs (complete with bark) are unwieldy and rough to the touch, and contribute (as do the combs) to deforestation through the unnecessary and wasteful use of wood. Besides, at $3.50 a crayon, it would take a month's wages to amass a 64-color...
...This is the first situation that cells have been taken out of someone and put back onto that person," says G. Gregory Gallico, assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Medical School and a plastic surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). "It's a quantum leap...
...that earthlings living in plastic bubbles on Mars a thousand years hence will care one whit. But it's nice to see people in 1992 with a little perspective...