Beauty At Any Price: Cosmetics Still Strong

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As Congress balked at the $700 billion bank bailout and the stock market plunged last week, Dr. Howard Brooks, a cosmetic dermatologist in Washington, was asked by a female patient if his business had suffered.

“Honestly, it hasn’t,” he said. She replied, “I can’t believe people are still spending this kind of money on Botox!” Brooks reminded her that she was having a Botox injection, and back came this reply: “I know, I just didn’t think that other people would be.”

That

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