Plastic Surgery

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Stepping up the hunt for their biggest enemy, Russia's security services said yesterday they would pay for plastic surgery for anyone who gives information leading to the killing or capture of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, on top of the $10 million reward promised. Meanwhile, a top prosecutor said that a leader of the militants who took part in the seizure of more than 1,000 hostages at a school in the town of Beslan in September had implicated the late rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov in the attack, which left more than 330 people dead.

A bomb exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class Saturday, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said. The device went off a few minutes before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students milled outside, chatting and getting ready for class at the Morvillo-Falcone vocational institute. The school is named after the slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and his wife, Francesca Morvillo, a judge who was also killed in the 1992 bombing in Sicily by Cosa...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Does Islam frown on nose jobs? Chemical peels? How about breast implants? One of the clerics with the answers is Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, and Saudi women flock to him for guidance about going under the knife. The results may not see much light of day in a kingdom where women cover up from head to toe, yet cosmetic surgery is booming. Religion covers every facet of life in Saudi Arabia, including plastic surgery. Nujaimi draws his guidelines from the consensus that was reached three years ago when clergymen and plastic surgeons met in Riyadh to determine...

THE VOW (2012) When a car crash leaves Rachel McAdams unable to remember husband Channing Tatum (both above), he sets out to win her all over again. The weepie of the week for fans of McAdams's "The Notebook" and Tatum's "Dear John. " Extras: Blu-ray featurettes include a segment on the real-life couple that inspired the film. (Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $40.99) PILLOW TALK (1959) Rock Hudson gets up to party-line mischief with Doris Day in the fondly remembered romantic comedy, new to Blu-ray.

A bomb exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class Saturday, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said. The device went off a few minutes before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students milled outside, chatting and getting ready for class at the Morvillo-Falcone vocational institute. The school is named after the slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and his wife, Francesca Morvillo, a judge who was also killed in the 1992 bombing in Sicily by Cosa...

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Dr. Peter Linton, the surgeon who started the first cleft palate clinic in Vermont, died Sunday. He was 74. Dr. Linton was chief of plastic surgery at Fletcher Allen Health Care and taught at the University of Vermont. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he moved to Burlington in the 1960s. "He loved to see them smile," his daughter Sarah said of her father's patients. "When you have a cleft lip, you can't smile. " During his career, Dr. Linton treated thousands of Vermont children.

FRAMINGHAM -- A Brazilian doctor and his wife pleaded not guilty yesterday to manslaughter in the death of a 24-year-old woman during illegal liposuction surgery. Luiz Carlos Ribeiro and Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro were ordered held on $250,000 bail and $50,000 bail, respectively, the same amounts on which they were ordered held last month after their arraignment on unauthorized practice of medicine and drug charges. The next court date was scheduled for Sept. 27. Jeanne Earley, a lawyer for Luiz Ribeiro, said during the arraignment at Framingham...

In South Korea, where plastic surgery among the young has become such a craze that 50 percent of women in their 20s have reportedly gone under the knife, Kim Ki-duk's spare, unsettling "Time" is this close to a documentary. For American audiences, it's a metaphor: a tale of lovers who'd rather lose their identities than their passion. What do we really fall in love with, the film asks -- another person or the rush of love itself? After a brief, disquieting barrage of reconstructive-surgery footage, "Time" settles into the fraught romance of Ji-woo (Ha Jung-woo)

NEW YORK -- Olivia Goldsmith, the novelist whose savagely funny debut book, "The First Wives Club," became a revenge fantasy for wives tossed aside in favor of younger women, died Thursday of complications from plastic surgery. She was 54. Ms. Goldsmith, a successful management consultant before she took up writing, died in Lenox Hill Hospital, her lawyer said. Her agent, Nicholas Ellison, said Ms. Goldsmith had been in a coma since she suffered a heart attack Jan. 7 as she went under anesthesia for a procedure to remove loose skin from her chin.

Over the years, the Coen brothers have become the movie equivalent of an inconstant lover. They’re almost always charming and witty and creative, and sometimes they come through with a ‘‘Fargo,’’ so for a second you think there might actually be a long-term relationship there. But then they’ll stand you up at a restaurant and laugh at you for getting mad, and you realize that whatever matters to you, it sure doesn’t matter to them. ‘‘Burn After Reading’’ stands us up at the restaurant — and things were going so well, too. After being richly rewarded for the dark,...

Actress Ashley Judd was on "Good Morning America" on Thursday to talk about her new show, "Missing," which is about a CIA-trained mom looking for her missing son. Judd told "GMA" host George Stephanopoulos that she based her character on a woman she met while studying at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. (Judd graduated with a midcareer master's degree in Public Administration from the school in 2010.) "Without having realized it," Judd said, "I think I have partly based [my character]

MIAMI - A woman who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a curvier body. Police say what she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil, and flat-tire sealant. The suspect - who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman - apparently performed the surgery on herself, and investigators say she may have victimized others. Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested Friday after a year on the lam and has been charged with...

Sweating the small stuff has fallen on hard times. No one is allowed to sweat the small stuff anymore. Doing so makes you seem, well, small. Petty. Picky. "Don't sweat the small stuff. " You hear people say it all the time. Know what? I'm tired of sweating the big stuff: Mitt Romney wearing skinny jeans; whether Pippa's posterior is padded. And the really big stuff makes you crazy: our troops still fighting two wars, the bipolar stock market, businessmen in Somalia stealing food out of starving babies' mouths.

Extreme Makeover : Weight Loss Edition 10 p.m., Channel 5 Maybe ABC has “Biggest Loser’’ envy? Or maybe the network is still feeling guilty about the fact that the first edition of “Extreme Makeover’’ was a horrible show about becoming more beautiful with the help of plastic surgery? This new series, which is not structured as a contest, features trainer Chris Powell working with a different obese participant in each episode, helping each motivate to lose weight and eat properly.

“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word . . . plastics.” When Mr. McGuire offers this advice, if you can call it that, to young Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 film “The Graduate,’’ is it possible he had “boob jobs, credit cards, and our quest for perfection” in mind? “[O]ne cannot understand America,” Laurie Essig writes, “without understanding plastic.” Like Mr. McGuire, Essig believes that understanding plastic is the key to understanding contemporary America.

CHICAGO — A new federal study found that many same-day surgery centers — where patients get such things as foot operations and pain injections — have serious problems with infection control. Failure to wash hands, wear gloves, and clean blood glucose meters were among the reported breaches. Clinics reused devices meant for one person or dipped into single-dose medicine vials for multiple patients. The findings, appearing in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association, suggest lax infection practices could pervade the...

Extreme Makeover : Weight Loss Edition 10 p.m., Channel 5 Maybe ABC has “Biggest Loser’’ envy? Or maybe the network is still feeling guilty about the fact that the first edition of “Extreme Makeover’’ was a horrible show about becoming more beautiful with the help of plastic surgery? This new series, which is not structured as a contest, features trainer Chris Powell working with a different obese participant in each episode, helping each motivate to lose weight and eat properly.

Uh oh, the premise of this book is to get “serious’’ authors - not entertainment critics - to write about the one album that made the deepest impact on them. That could open the door to all manner of snobbery. But fortunately that’s not the case in these highly readable, confessional pieces that focus on blockbuster acts from the Beatles, the Who, and the Jackson 5 to cultish figures Kate Bush, the Smiths, Fugazi, and Rickie Lee Jones. The novelists, essayists, and magazine editors assembled for “Heavy Rotation’’ may end up revealing more than they intended (including a lot...