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Sex ratios and hunting for men in Lebannon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/world/middleeast/02beirut.html

For a few weeks twice a year, after Ramadan and before Christmas, thousands of Lebanon’s young men return from jobs abroad — and run smack into one of the world’s most aggressive cultures of female display. Young women of means have spent weeks primping and planning how to sift through as many men as possible in the short time available.

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"The competition is intense, conformity is a big thing, and everyone, rich and poor, gets plastic surgery. You can go to parts of Beirut where almost every young woman has the same little nose"

I thought that bit was interesting; I wouldn't have expected it.