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...campaigns that Roddick had taken up - and that Body Shop has supported in its storefronts - grew and expanded. Now a tube of lip gloss can increase awareness about domestic abuse and a bottle of perfume is a weapon in the fight against HIV. "She made shopping a political act," says her friend Josephine Fairley, co-founder of organic chocolate company Green & Black's. "She was the first person to do that. She made cosmetics fun, sexy and affordable, and there was always a message. But instead of 'Buy this mascara, it will change your life,' her message was, 'Buy this...
...schools plan to keep their early programs for the foreseeable future, according to the survey released last month. “We surveyed what is generally regarded as the top 300 schools,” said Brandon P. Jones ’00, the national director of SAT and ACT programs for Kaplan. He said that after several schools ended their early programs, “one of the things we anticipated could happen...was that a whole host of those schools could make the same decision.” But this was not the case, according to the survey...
...attack on New York's subway. Thanks to the Internet, a suicide bomber under bin Laden's sway can buy all the chemicals he needs from his local pharmacy to fabricate a bomb. He also can find the religious guidance, as specious as it might be, to justify the act...
...comes after: How long will the U.S. be in Iraq? (Probably a decade, possibly more.) How many troops will be needed? (Probably 130,000 to start, hopefully less.) What will the mission be after the surge? (Get in line - it's anyone's guess.) Will the Iraqis get their act together? (Not soon, as things stand...
...more a papal pilgrimage than a pastoral visit, with the stated purpose to celebrate the 850th anniversary on Saturday of the shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary. "My voyage is not political," the pontiff told reporters just before takeoff. "I want to join in with other faithful in this act of unity that such a journey brings." Nevertheless, Austrian Catholics will be looking to their pontiff for words of encouragement as the nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s in which the then Archbishop of Vienna Hans Wilhelm Groer was forced to resigned...