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...would have to be Marilyn Monroe. One could not have written a more perfect scenario, that we would wind up with our very first centerfold as the woman who became the major sex celebrity of the 20th century...
...needs money to pay for his trip, and manages to raise $2,000 - as much as an average Somali earns in three or four years - by selling the small vegetable stall his parents passed on to him before his 20th birthday. He gets advice on the best escape route from someone in the neighborhood whose relative has just made the journey. In the past, fleeing Somalis would travel by boat through the Suez Canal, but now that Egypt has tightened its border controls, the preferred route is overland to Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk...
...fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $50 a kilogram. There's gray salt, red salt, French salt, Spanish salt, Italian salt, Portuguese salt, salt with algae, salt mixed with herbs, even smoked salt. Such a wide variety was the norm up until the 20th century, when the U.S. firm Morton Salt used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history," he says. "What saltmakers wanted to do was to have this consistent, pure, white salt, and once they...
Like many seniors, Saito’s plans for next year are not set in stone. Though a chemistry concentrator, Saito has a range of academic interests, and he has applied for a number of fellowships to study the broad history of the early 20th century—everything from the uncertainty principle to the development of a twelve-ton scale. “I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life, and it stresses me out at night, but I have some very clear passions, and hopefully...
Although the banner of secularism is different from the anti-Catholic cry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the church-state separationists of today share a battle cry with the Know Nothings against “pervasively sectarian” (in the language of at least a few Blaine amendments) institutions. Although the Supreme Court, in a 2000 ruling (Mitchell v. Helms), has found that the term has “a shameful pedigree” within American history, the Blaine language’s usage today—to block judicially and on a state level...