21.   About things like breast implants, underage drinking, and whassup with the flipping of the hair?

22.   About the same time, the debate over silicone breast implants hit the news.

23.   Actress Sally Kirkland recently underwent surgery to remove breast implants that had given her problems for years.

24.   Breast implants, for example, can cause serious local complications such as painful hardening of the breast.

25.   Breast implants, for instance, daily look less likely as the cause of the immunological problems once charged to them with such political fervor.

26.   But Brockovich demands to be taken seriously with her Armani suits and her breast implants.

27.   But several recent studies have found little, if any, health risk from breast implants.

28.   But then Martina Langley reports that last year in El Salvador she opened a newspaper and there was an ad for silicone breast implants.

29.   By retaining lawyers who have profited handsomely from lawsuits over such products as asbestos and silicone breast implants, the states also have riled businesses.

30.   Clinical studies before and since the scare show silicone breast implants are, in fact, safe.