Word: agee
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Appalled at the popularity of so-called designer vaginas, a grass-roots organization called the New View Campaign staged its first-ever protest on Monday outside New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery. Two dozen women - ranging in age from teenagers to, ahem, sexagenarians - handed out index cards and held up orange poster boards with the message "No Two Alike," while two members of the group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea...
...delivered poems and roses, followed by a romantic stroll along the Charles, where he popped the question to an unsuspecting Chi. Afterwards, he cleared out his dorm-room for a romantic dinner. HUDS did not make an appearance. Chi realizes that her engagement is a bit untraditional at an age when commitment means going to brain-break together. “Growing up, I expected to get married around 26 or 27 as an ideal age, and to have a lot more of my education, career, and financial security established by then,” says the bride...
...watched him give his acceptance speech before the multitudes filling Hyde Park, tears sprang to my eyes and only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing...
...Beijing, too, seems well aware of the Dalai Lama's age. In a recent press conference, a senior official was quoted by official media as speaking of a "post Dalai Lama era," calling on the leader to "correct his mistakes and get closer to the central government and do something beneficial for the people...during the remainder of his life, no matter if his health condition is good or poor." That would be consistent with the simple policy many analysts believe the Chinese have settled on: waiting until the Dalai Lama dies and refusing to concede anything in the meantime...
...after its initial good reception as a concept, nobody ever saw the finished work. After Okamoto died in 1996 at the age of 84, Toshiko spearheaded a search for the mural. When it was located in September 2003 in a warehouse outside Mexico City, its surfaces deeply cracked from exposure, she made the recovery, restoration and return to Japan of Myth of Tomorrow her last project as director of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. She paid a fraction of the millions of dollars for the painting that Hirano says were spent transporting and restoring it. When it came to bringing...