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Over the past two years Navy plastic surgeons in San Diego have performed 544 free nose jobs, face-lifts, liposuctions and other cosmetic treatments on officers, sailors and their dependents. When the Los Angeles Times disclosed the numbers last week, critics castigated the work as a waste of money. The Navy defended the practice on the ground that the operations helped hone the skills of its physicians...
...Navy showed less charity in a similar case earlier this month. After a six-month investigation, the Navy reprimanded plastic surgeon Mitchell Grayson, a commander, and fined him $2,000. His offense: borrowing surgical instruments to use in free operations that repaired the cleft palates and harelips of hundreds of Third World children. Grayson has resigned from the Navy to practice in Philadelphia...
...would children resist their craving for Chicken McNuggets? In a word: polystyrene. Environmentally conscious youngsters are up in arms about the soft plastic used to make disposable soft-drink cups, hamburger boxes and other lightweight thermal containers. The material is nonbiodegradable and can give off toxic fumes when burned. The food industry uses more than 1 billion lbs. of the material every year to pack its products. McDonald's (1989 sales: $17 billion) is the world's largest single consumer. Each day 22 million customers buy food in 11,000 of its outlets in 52 countries. An estimated...
...nearby neighborhood of Oldpark, went to New Lodge that night looking for excitement. He never came back. Sometime around 1 a.m., he and a friend were walking down a street in New Lodge, headed for the epicenter of the riot. He was hit in the chest by a plastic bullet, crumpled to the ground, blood oozing from his mouth, and died before he reached the hospital...
Overnight a shrine rose at the place where he was killed, a lace-covered altar laden with plastic flowers in vases, Madonna and Christ icons, and a photograph of the boy. Above it a cardboard plaque read, S. DUFFY MURDERED BY RUC AUGUST 9TH, 1989. Along a wall near Duffy's house, someone wrote in giant white letters, 20 YEARS ON AND STILL MURDERING CHILDREN. His funeral, a nightmarishly slow procession, overflowed with grief...