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...best reason to try Photoshop Express is for its image-editing features, which surpass those of any free program currently available. Beyond the standard red-eye removal and cropping features, Express lets you dabble with more advanced options like altering a single color on your image (while leaving the rest of the picture unchanged) or using the touch-up brush to fix multiple problems at once. On the downside, Express ran a little slowly in my tests and was not quite as intuitive to use as another competitor, Picnik...
...British kids born into poverty - as many as one in three, according to the Children's Society - still start life at a serious disadvantage. Britons "continue to believe that poor people just need a kick up the backside to break out of poverty," says Reitemeier. And while skin color doesn't determine social class, darker-skinned Britons are likely to be less well off than their paler counterparts. Around 40% of people from ethnic minorities are poor - twice the rate for white Britons...
...worried that the conservation movement to which he has dedicated his life may be overlooking another kind of diversity: racial diversity. An American of South Asian descent (like many people from his native Sri Lanka, he generally uses one name), Sanjayan often finds himself as the only person of color at environmental meetings, in the classroom, even out in the field. Conservation in the U.S. - and the environmental movement more generally - tends to be very white and relatively well off, from the leadership down to the foot soldiers. "Right now conservation groups do miserably (in diversity)," says Sanjayan. "That needs...
...lifelong love of wildlife. It was exactly the kind of experience, he notes, that few minorities and immigrants in the U.S. - more likely to be living in urban areas isolated from nature - would ever have. Still, growing up Sanjayan says that there were few if any role models of color in the conservation movement for a young South Asian like himself. David Attenborough, Jacques Cousteau: all great conservationists, all white men. "If you don't see someone you can identify with yourself as a kid, it can be hard to imagine yourself in that role," he says. "I think that...
...started poring over books filled with materials like bamboo, sand-embossed patterns and unexpectedly large shapes. Wallpaper, she quickly realized, had changed since her grandmother's time. "I'm looking to make a statement," says Lovett, 49. "And with these funky designs, you can do that with texture and color...