The Beauty Biz

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Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery
(Alex Kuczynski)

Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
(Robert Leleux)

On Ugliness
(Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen (translator))

On Beauty
(Zadie Smith)

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Beauty Junkies
12.28.2008
 (was 01.27.2008)

The beauty biz is booming. The image conscious consumer can choose between a full-service menu of make-over options: laser facial resurfacing, liposuction, eyelid enhancing, breast implants and even a nip and tuck – wherever. And reality TV makes the whole process downright seductive. But why are we dying to be beautiful? On To the Best of Our Knowledge, a look at the quest for beautiful.

  1. Alex Kuczynski on "Beauty Junkies"

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    With plastic surgery business growing dramatically in the United States, liposuction and breast augmentation are the most popular procedures.

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  2. Ruth Gendler on Beauty in the World

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    Ruth Gendler re-tells the story of "The Mountain That Loved A Bird" by Alice McLerran and Eric Carle. Gendler is an artist and the author of "Notes on the Need for Beauty."  She tells Anne Strainchamps that we need to learn to see the beauty in the world all around us.

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  3. Robert Leleux on "The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy"

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    Robert Leleux talks about growing up gay, in Texas, with his plastic surgery junkie and drama queen of a mother, whom he adores and who is accompanying him on his book tour.

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  4. Umberto Eco's "On Ugliness"

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    Ugliness is surprisingly complex and fascinating. It's far more than the simple opposite of beauty.

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