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...with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based on the 18th century French ballad Plaisir d'amour. Such music became world music only when darker-skinned folks sang...
...After all, jobs are where people get their spending money, and job security is where they get their confidence. And a job picture that?s still bottoming out after eight months - just getting darker more slowly - doesn?t exactly qualify as the light at the end of the tunnel...
...turns out that he is darker and more complex than we thought," goes Dowd, wagging her eyebrows and mugging for her peers...
...darker Kennedy storylines that Ethel's unruly boys often followed, with their recklessness and substance abuse. There was a lost quality to affable, flaky Max. He told interviewer Matt Bai that in reading the 1958 psychoanalytical text The Quest for Identity, he saw himself...
...conditions. But prolonged use stops the production of melanin, a natural pigment that protects the skin from the sun, and increases the likelihood of skin cancers. Damaged skin cells also "make the skin very weak," says chemist Wangai. Veins show through and, over time, the skin may actually become darker and develop hard nodules. "But even when they know that, women keep using them," says Peris Wanjiru, a saleswoman in a Nairobi beauty shop. "They feel it doesn't matter how they will look in two or three years' time. What matters is how they look today...