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An Anonymous Coward writes:

(from the break-a-leg!-dept)

Apparently there is a booming industry in India whose modus operandi is to break the bones in your leg and then install stress braces you will wear for months to make you a few centimeters taller. The operation is expensive and experimental. Yet

(from the break-a-leg!-dept)

Apparently there is a booming industry in India whose modus operandi is to break the bones in your leg and then install stress braces you will wear for months to make you a few centimeters taller. The operation is expensive and experimental, yet getting more and more popular.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/i-have-to-be-taller-the-unregulated-world-of-indias-limb-lengthening-industry [theguardian.com]

How would you like a few centimeters more? I personally find fashion pretty ridiculous as 100 years ago it was deemed valuable to be pale & fat...

How would you like a few centimeters more? I personally find fashion pretty ridiculous as 100 years ago it was deemed valuable to be pale & fat...

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