In its bid to add to arguments critical of American culture and the cosmetic surgery "craze" of this decade, the YMCA (Young Women's Christian Association) has release a scattershot report culled from a variety of disparate sources -- secondhand interviews with professionals, facts and figures from the public record, and unrelated studies conducted by various organizations. The resulting mess of source materials has been cobbled into a document called Beauty at Any Cost, and it is available here.

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