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...asymmetrical haircuts. While there is conformity in their uniformity, the phenonemon is more than a trend. Indonesian teens are finding more kids like themselves on Myspace and Facebook - alienated from their local peers, many find solace solidarity in sharing the alienation of their global soul mates in Boulder or Brixton. Kids all over the world now have access to the same music, inspiring imitation and moving product - and local stations in Indonesia's main cities are catching...
Amid a constantly changing landscape, our guide Hossein led us up giant boulder-strewn hillsides and past juniper trees to the 2,500-m Tizi Mezik pass, only to drop sharply down again into a mineral-rich valley of red earth and terraced villages. The next morning - with a night's snowfall caking the red soil and pines - everything looked different again. As we hiked up a final ridge, muleteer Ali Baba (he assured us that was his name) used the opportunity to pelt everybody with snowballs, a prank I hadn't expected to experience in North Africa...
...dangerous undercurrent throughout, a feeling that the professor was striking not quite the right note when she said, "We are Virginia Tech." And when she said that there was tragedy everywhere, including when an elephant was killed for its ivory or a child was killed by a rolling boulder it was hard to tell if she'd quite captured what the crowd was searching for. And as she let loose with her final assertion - "We will prevail! We will prevail! We will prevail!" - there was a terrifying split-second when no one clapped, and you could feel a sudden fear...
Heinz is among the handful of members who regularly show up for twice-weekly practices with the club he registered at his school last fall. Ryan Ford, 19, a business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set up a similar club in November. In three years as a traceur, as parkour people call themselves, Ford has had one notable injury: separating his shoulder last summer after his foot clipped a rail and sent him headlong toward concrete. But instead of face planting, he managed to keep rolling over. "I like to think parkour actually saved me from more...
Harvard now joins past winners University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Oregon. The AF&PA, a national trade organization for the forest products industry, established the awards...