Facial-hair transplants for hipsters, and more
Some Brooklyn hipsters with patchy beards are getting facial-hair transplants to give them fashionable, lumberjack-style beards.
Facial-hair transplants for hipsters
Some Brooklyn hipsters with patchy beards are getting facial-hair transplants to give them fashionable, lumberjack-style beards. Full beards have become “an important male identifier,” said Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, a plastic surgeon who performs the $8,000 transplants. “One of the best investments I’ve ever made,” a now full-bearded customer told the New York Post.
Students deface James Meredith statue
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More than 50 years after James Meredith became the first black student at the University of Mississippi, three white students have been accused of hanging a noose and a Confederate battle sign on a campus statue of the civil rights hero. The FBI is investigating the incident. Last year, a large crowd gathered on the Ole Miss campus to protest President Obama’s re-election, shouting racial slurs.
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