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Does kiwi leave you conflicted? Do you dig the flavor but detest the tartness? Is its hirsute surface just a little off-putting? Well, take heart. A sweet, hairless relative of the original, named Zespri Gold for its bright yellow interior, will soon become available year-round at a store near you. Designed to please Asian palates, this quaint kiwi is catching on also in North America, where 1,750 tons of the fruit were sold last year. Zespri International, the New Zealand firm that developed it, expects a record volume of the fruit in stores this June. Next...
...don’t get me wrong. I like skirts. I own several. And I wholeheartedly enjoy wearing them when the air temperature is above 65 degrees. I detest, however, the bone-chilling updraft that results from wearing a skirt to a mid-November interview (note that, contrary to advertisers’ claims, choosing to wear tights instead of sheer pantyhose does next to nothing to resolve this problem). And, despite my best efforts, I have yet to find a way of uncrossing and recrossing my legs without at least partially flashing an interviewer (note that, perhaps, this explains...
...American case--increasing cultural-exchange programs, lining up officials to appear on Arab media and perhaps getting agencies to develop pro-American ads for Arab TV. But she has few tools at her disposal. The government's biggest broadcast arm, Voice of America, has a mandate of objectivity--employees detest the term propaganda--and while it broadcasts into Afghanistan in several regional languages, its proselytizing is limited to the occasional editorial. The station came under criticism for airing excerpts of an interview with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. VOA staff members counter that its independence lends it credibility. Director Robert...
...Rushdie’s New York is peopled with minutely observed passersby, victims and perpetrators of infidelity and callousness, all of whom are fuel for Solanka’s and their own pervading fury, at times they are reduced to the simplistic categorisations that Solanka (and I suspect Rushdie) detest in others...
...were completely unaware of the black middle class, but I was raised in this community, and the Julias of this country were my family and friends. Some, both white and black, protested that we weren't portraying black poverty--"telling it like it is" (a phrase I came to detest). But other blacks told me, "We've never seen images of ourselves before." Actually, it's an image of another kind that has concerned me most of my life: my own--and I'm not proud of that. In my business, there's so much emphasis on beauty and glamour...