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Plastic Surgery Disturbs Sunday Morning Ritual

NPR

Published February 8, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

Reading Sunday papers in a coffee house, Commentator Andrei Codrescu was once the unwilling witness to a medical resident doing freelance cosmetic surgery on two women joggers at the next table.