Word: colorable
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...budget of $500,000 to finance opposition groups and political activists and that he personally contacted the office of thwarted presidential candidate and now leading opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the run-up to the election. He also admitted that a local staffer wore green, the color of Mousavi's campaign, to one of the demonstrations. (See pictures of Mir-Hossein Mousavi behind the scenes...
...child suggested contribution to the PTA. The group was able to put that money toward the salary of a paraprofessional whose job was endangered. "The state is supposed to provide the black-and-white essentials of a good education, and the PTA fills in the color," says California state PTA president Jo Loss, whose schools have had to deal with a round of budget cuts that might leave more than 17,000 teachers out of work this fall. "But our state has increasingly fallen far short of providing even the essentials. So PTAs are having to step...
Though it still remains somewhat of a taboo to discuss, the skin-color barrier has historically been just as daunting for people of color as the racial barrier. A 2004 study showing that light-skinned immigrants in the U.S. earn more money on average than darker-skinned immigrants confirmed what many African Americans have privately known for years: that there are benefits simply for being a minority who is fairer. Traditionally, "beauty barriers" have almost exclusively been broken by lighter-skinned blacks - from the earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss...
...time spent in foster care. (She later credited her unhappy childhood with fueling her drive and determination.) She arrived in New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1966 and decided to try modeling to support herself. After most agencies turned her down, proclaiming her skin color "too dark," she forged out on her own, landing a photo spread with the New York Times by contacting a photographer directly. At a time when "black is beautiful" became a rallying cry for many black people, she helped illustrate this mantra for people of all skin colors. (See TIME...
...jellyfish swam through it. To their surprise, rather than swimming through the dye, the jellyfish appeared to pick it up, tucking it in a space just behind their tentacles. As the jellyfish swam, they carried the dye (and water) along. By monitoring the variation of the dye color, the research team discovered that each jellyfish was carrying water for about 50 feet (15 meters) - many times the size of its body. (See pictures of life beneath Antarctic...