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Barbie turned 50 this year, and she's been celebrating her birthday with a whirlwind world tour, christening a new store in Shanghai and strutting the runways of New York's Fashion Week. As curvaceous and sprightly as ever, the petite doll even paid a visit to the nation's capital for a recent weeklong convention, and the reception there proved that much of the world still has a love affair with the leggy blonde. (See TIME's photos: "Barbie Turns...
...Hoping to get out of the sprinkling rain and into our warm beds (well, at least as warm as possible in a country where few homes have central heating), two friends and I hailed a cab to take us home from the restaurant where we had been celebrating a birthday...
...meeting with my thesis adviser. That was the final straw. While I attempted to engage in a discussion about conservative social movements, she waited for me outside, parked under the shade and ready to emerge at a phone call's notice. Next month, it's my 22nd birthday. I envision turning 28, with my mother ready to drive me to work, and determine that I'd rather risk another encounter with an airbag...
What's in an apology? Some expressions of remorse are commonplace - we hear them on the playground when kids smack each other on the head, or they land in your inbox after a friend forgets your birthday. It's the grand-scale apologies, it seems, that are harder to come...
...whatever they want whenever they feel like it. The space station operates on a 16-day menu cycle, and each astronaut is allotted two cases to fill with any type of non-perishable goods, such as Pringles or M&Ms. Sometimes NASA sends up a bonus item, like a birthday cake...