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...avoid such problems? Like my classmates, you can choose bags that have wide, padded straps and a belt. That will help transfer some of the weight from the back and shoulders to the hips. You should also tighten both straps firmly, so the pack rests about two inches above your waist. Also, remember to pack your bag with the heaviest items closest to your back and to bend both knees when you pick...
...controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous love story, recently won rave reviews in the U.S.) "You could only show kissing scenes from behind...
...acacia trees. Most of the men - Tuareg nomads from the small oasis town of Timia in the West African nation of Niger - wear loose fitting, black trousers, with yellow or white edging around the hem. Over the trousers hangs a cotton robe held at the waist by a colorful belt. Many wear turbans and sunglasses. One rider holds a bright blue and orange umbrella to protect himself from the sun, which at 8am is already blistering hot. Along the riverbed, small groups of drummers beat out time on animal skins stretched between rocks...
...barring a fiscal belt-tightening miracle the likes of which Washington has rarely seen, the Social Security surplus will indeed be invaded this fall, to no economic effect. And though both sides will be responsible, Democrats will blame Bush and his tax cut, and Bush will blame Democrats and their spending...
...course, if the tax cuts don?t help, and the economy is still in the tank in November 2002, the GOP?s snug-fitting belt is likely to quickly settle around their necks...