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...Christian college, A.P.U.'S atmosphere is decidedly mellow. There is no dress code: women wear tank tops and low-rise pants, and men have earrings and ripped jeans. Male and female students can visit each other's dorm rooms until midnight on weekends or 10 p.m. during the week. A rarely enforced prohibition on dancing was dropped in the late 1990s. There is no faith pledge, although students must sign a document agreeing to certain "spiritual and social expectations"--no drug, alcohol or tobacco use on campus and no unmarried cohabitation or homosexual activity on or off campus. There...
...haute couture. Joining them in the front row was pint-size singer Christina Aguilera and Lord of the Rings lovely Liv Tyler, who had flown in especially for the Givenchy show (never mind that she's paid buckets of money to promote its beauty line; she needs an Oscar dress...
...girl bob that's just like her girlish one, and when she donned a sheer gown for a recent event, her makeup artist had to point out that her nipples were showing. "We tried to put, like, Band-Aids on," Portman said, but she gave up and wore the dress anyway. So, O.K., she's not yet a woman...
...DRESS IN LAYERS The greatest danger is hypothermia, a condition in which the body's core temperature drops from 98.6ºF to below 96ºF. Sports doctors recommend that you wear an inner layer made of a material, such as polypropylene, that wicks away moisture so that your perspiration doesn't chill your body. (Don't use cotton, which retains moisture against the skin.) Choose something like fleece or wool for your middle, insulating layer, and make sure your outer layer protects against the wind...
...eyes of an orphan too proud to plead, too desperate to reproach. She is poor, female and 12, and in mid-'90s Afghanistan, with the Taliban thug clerics in power, that means no schooling, employment or respect. Then her mother has an idea. Cut the girl's hair, dress her in robes and give her a boy's name--Osama--so she can find work as a "boy" and support the tattered family...