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What you said about ... NIPPING AND TUCKING Joel Stein’s June 29 cover report on the growing ubiquity of plastic surgery prompted a segment on The Insider that dubbed the trend “the new normal.” But some readers, like Joanne Drake of Fruita, Colo., were angered by doc‘The “everyone” tors’ profiting from “giving getting the selfish people surgery don’t makeovers” live here in rural when they could central PA.’ be helping peoBECKY HOLDEN, ple in need. And Carlisle, Pa. Lynn Buschhoff of Denver lamented that “women continue to let themselves be snookered by the beauty industry.” Mary Anne Johnson of Crown Point, N.Y., meanwhile, predicted a future trend: one in which people “will be crying because their grandmothers don’t look like the grannies in their picture books, and a whole new branch of plastic surgery will emerge.”
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1. Benjamin Koren, U.S. Air Force technical sergeant (track, archery, volleyball) 2. Jenae Piper, retired Marine Corps sergeant (cycling, field, sitting volleyball, shooting) 3. Rey Edenfield, Air Force staff sergeant (sitting volleyball, shooting, archery, track) 4. Lisa Marie Hodgden, retired Air Force master sergeant (cycling, field)
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