At People's Ninth Hospital in Shanghai, a public hospital that is the city's busiest for cosmetic surgery, there were 50, 000 cosmetic operations in 2011, a 50% increase in five years, according to Qi Zuoliang, deputy director of the plastic-surgery department.
Andrew Lee, director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags, the department said.
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The Public Services Department said the numbers printed on plastic packaging were often unclear or too small to read.
The department said the move would help to collect more plastic for recycling.
The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.
The department has altered its policy on the collection of plastic, allowing most types of packaging to be deposited at the island's bring banks.
Tina Norman-Ross, recycling officer, said the department hoped the new initiative would also reduce contamination of the plastic collected at the bring bank sites.
And in February 2003, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised Americans to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting so that they could seal their homes in the event of a chemical or biological attack.
Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
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