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Latvia Wants to Be a Hotspot for LASIK and More Medical Tourism

Riga, Latvia, wants to inject itself into the global medical tourism industry. It's promising visitors tighter skin, nicer teeth and other fountain-of-youth services in the capital of the Baltic country.

But Latvia will have to compete with more established medical tourism destinations, such as South Korea and South Africa. What the country has in its favor is price: cosmetic surgery can be 40 percent cheaper there than in Western Europe, the Times Online reported.

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More Vodka, Please

When we've reported on Latvia before, it's been for worthy and decent tourism reasons like promoting a visit to Riga's Occupation Museum. This decency is all about to change.

Recently in Russia, workers digging holes to plant trees hit a pipe. A common-enough occurrence, until they discovered the pipe was filled with homemade vodka. And this spirited spirit was heading over the border into Latvia. Incredibly, this wasn't even the first such pipe to be found. Nobody's quite sure who's responsible--this pipe ran between two empty, rented houses--but the Russians have turned off the pipeline, anyway. We suppose there are a few thirsty Latvians this week.

[Photo: m_y_eda]

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