Nonprofit Offers Single-Use ‘Plastic Surgery’ To Festival-Goers
The “surgeons” in this case were environmental scientists, seeing “patients” at an Oct. 10-13 event headlined by The Flaming Lips, Ween, Devo and Wu-Tang Clan.
Source: www.forbes.com
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