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...important for you Americans (if there’s anything to regret, it’s that I won’t be able to talk like this anymore). A lot of history happened there, a lot of food is grown there, and a lot of the better college football and basketball teams play there. It’s the Heartland. So instead of Cancún or the Keys or even godless New York, it feels appropriate to make a pilgrimage out to Kansas...
Additionally, Viana said that the government is working to better connect isolated forest communities through various methods, such as delivering medical supplies to the river communities on boats...
...that for lighter skin, which has deep roots in colonization and slavery, they are both issues with little publicized, problematic health consequences. Many skin-lightening creams contain the chemical hydroquinone, which can lead to cancer, the strong steroid clobetasol propionate, and the poisons mercury and arsenic. Tanning is no better. Even indoor tanning lamps (UV radiation) cause melanoma and squamous cell cancer, not to mention the psychological turmoil of striving for the imagined “ideal” skin color...
...better explanation is that the Navy failed to move on Graf earlier not in spite of her gender but because of it. Following the Tailhook scandal - in which Navy aviators assaulted dozens of women at a 1991 convention - the service rushed women to sea to show it was no longer locked in the Dark Ages. The service was under political pressure to diversify its leadership, and Graf was part of the answer: the first woman to command both a destroyer and a cruiser. Some veterans believe Graf needed more time to prepare for those commands. "I have some sympathy...
...Seth Kaye, a sophomore computer science major and president of the Queer and Allied Activism group at the University of Virginia. "We are being singled out. People are upset. It's really frustrating." Specific wording protecting gays, he contends, is important to help remind the UVA community to exercise better judgment. "Virginia is supposed to be for lovers!" he exclaimed, referencing an ad campaign by the Virginia Tourism Corporation...