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Where do you go with your deepest, darkest secret? We went to a park. Old Korean men looked up from their chess games in astonishment to see a gaggle of whites and redheads and Koreans sit down at the table next to them with cameras, gifts and notebooks. Rae presented her birth mother with a book she had made about her life--full of childhood pictures and purple-penned poems--but the woman showed no emotion as she looked at it. Rae presented her with a silver locket--a picture of herself inside--but again, no eye contact, no hugs...
...also the first generation exposed routinely to pornography. They share the weird and unreliable assumption - almost universal now - that for something to be genuine, it must be shown. And if it is shown, it is credible. It is real. I grew up learning to make the opposite assumption: My deepest instinct tells me that if something is paraded in public, then it must be false - a mere performance...
...average and has three main layers: the epidermis, the dermis and the hypodermis. No thicker than a page in this magazine, the outermost layer, the epidermis, is filled with layers of specialized skin cells known as keratinocytes. When these cells, which start out plump with water in the deepest layer of the epidermis, migrate to the skin's surface, they lose moisture and are eventually sloughed off. In young people the average keratinocyte takes 28 days to traverse the epidermis. In folks over 50, it can take an additional week and a half. Result: mature skin contains fewer round, plump...
...George W. Bush. But Powell's not really saying. In the manner that movie stars use when speaking of people with whom they are "just really good friends," he said he's had "lots of conversations," with Bush and that "those conversations are private." (After all, General Powell's deepest relationship was with George W.'s father.) And while the Bushies aren't telling either, they're floating the idea that W. will name at least some Cabinet members before November. Whether that will make friends and influence voters - does anybody really care who the secretary of transportation is? - remains...
...doomed to yield little more than informed guesses. My feeling is that viruses are the 21st-century equivalent of the pig's-blood scene in "Carrie." In other words, we're dealing with a bunch of people who didn't have a great time in high school, and whose deepest desires fluctuate daily between wanting to be Bill Gates and wanting to destroy the entire Microsoft mainframe...