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Face Transplants On The Way
kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person." The problem? Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"
... for some reason. Some of his books, Johnny Mnemonic most notably I think, have gangs that surgically alter their faces to look like animals. For example, there was one gang that had massive fangs "installed", along with complete alternations to facial bone structure and skin. Kind of weird, hearing (the second time) about this story on Slashdot, I'm wondering if we'll ever reach the point where these kinds of alterations will get cheap enough that they could be used as Gibson wrote about.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Well, in that case, maybe it's time for a button in the preferences. Set a flag for stories that have been moderated as repeats, and you can choose whether you want to see the repeats, perhaps for some macabre reason you actually want to see a second discussion on the topic. For the rest of us though, it would be nice if once a story is identified as a repeat, if we could just skip it as easily as though it were a story by Jon Katz. Professional Therapist.