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There's something about a shop plastered with photos of pixie-faced celebrities flashing V-signs that makes you covet a pair of their cast-off feathered jeans or a once-worn magenta mohair sweater. At least, that's what Charlene Choi Tsoek-jin?the younger half of the misnamed Hong Kong Canto-pop pair Twins?hopes fans will do in her new vintage clothes store, Low B Club. "I've always wanted to design my own clothes but I don't have the time," says Choi. Opening up a fashion store was the next best thing. "Since we only...
...Princeton Insurance Co. have discontinued coverage in states with the largest awards, such as Nevada and Pennsylvania. Three significant malpractice insurers fell into liquidation in the past year. The insurers left in the worst markets--often smaller, physician-owned companies--do not have the capacity to absorb all the cast-off practitioners...
...consumes Waylaid. Lin's narrator gets his notions of it from cast-off porn, his coarse friend Vincent and the flesh trade that surrounds him. His attitude is, not surprisingly, neither romantic nor realistic; he divides the women he meets into "hardcore" or "centerfolds." When he loses his virginity, however, the experience is brutal in a way that shreds his cheap porn fantasies...
Just examine the team. How is New England better this year than seasons past? Some point to the addition of Antoiwan Smith, a cast-off running back from Buffalo. Smith has been decent, but nothing special. He has rushed for 749 yards on 199 carries. Smith is twelfth in the NFL in total yardage but his 3.8 yards-per-carry average is not tremendous. Smith has also rushed for under 40 yards in a game five times this season...
...peanut seller sits on the edge of Thankot village square outside Kathmandu. She's 33 and dressed in cast-off clothes from her customers and friends. At the end of each day she goes home to a tiny room she cannot afford?it costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that...