The Beauty Biz

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January 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.

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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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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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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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Philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco wrote a history of beauty. A few years later, he followed it up with a study of ugliness. Here’s what he found

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