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Those colorful plastic bracelets popularized by Madonna and Avril Lavigne have taken on a risque new twist. The bangles convey a not-so-secret sexual code depending on their color, indicating different levels of intimacy starting from hugs. In a game some kids call Snap, they yank the rubbery bracelets from the wrists of fellow students to indicate which kind of sex they would like to have. Grabbing a red bracelet is asking for a lap dance, for example, and a blue one can mean oral sex. The code has even spread internationally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents: Brace Yourselves | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...Words cannot convey the sense of loss felt here at Berkshire School today,” Assistant Head of School Phil Jarvis said in a statement...

Author: By Nadia L. Oussayef, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Headmaster, Hockey Player Dies at 51 | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

...California's recall suggests that with a limping economy and continued problems overseas, voters across the nation are feeling skittish and might turn to a candidate just because he promises change. There may be no single lesson from the defeat of Gray Davis last week, but it does convey a general sense of menace to the status quo. Incumbents, beware. --With reporting by Terry McCarthy, Jeffrey Ressner, Sean Scully and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines and Matthew Cooper and Douglas Waller/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 5 Meanings Of Arnold | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...would be up to each House Master if and how they wished to convey that message,” Kidd told the Crimson in an e-mail yesterday. She did not specifically mention Right to Life in her request of the Houses...

Author: By Tina Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Group Claims Right-to-Life Posters Torn Down, Defaced | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...your itinerary will only take you to the capitals of culture, try the STYLE CITY books from Thames and Hudson ($24 each), which supply the scoop on?and gorgeous photos of?Barcelona, London, New York and Paris. Amsterdam and San Francisco are next. The guides' writers convey the "vibrant and idiosyncratic experience" of each city, and they take the reader off the beaten path. Craving chocolate in the Catalonian capital? Try Cacao Sampaka, a "beautifully spare shop interior full of dark chocolate-colored wood." Dare to venture beyond Manhattan? Fuel up at the Brooklyn Inn, where you can "argue about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowdown on the High Life | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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