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WHEN A TRUCK overturned near Belmont Center six weeks ago, releasing a potentially explosive ethyl-alcohol-based solution used in hair dye, and forcing the evacuation of 500 residents, it served as a harrowing reminder of a problem that has existed for over 50 years--the inadequate regulation of the cosmetics industry. The hazards posed to public safety by this and other similarly occurring accidents cannot be underestimated. According to a fire chief at the scene, if the chemical-filled cannisters had landed on an incline 50 feet from the accident, they would probably have ended up in the heart...
...that though it was 72 degrees outside it was a bit warm inside her suit. Senior defensive tackle FRANK MAMBUCA was so excited about playing a home football game at last that he dyed his number into his hair with peroxide Harvard quarterback BRIAN WHITE didn't have to dye his hair to gain the attention of a post-game autograph seeker. Columbia scored three touchdowns its best point production against...
...collects bills for a sugar company and engages in petty embezzlement. He also writhes in noisy anguish at a world that can ignore his true genius. "Didn't they call me crazy," he asks an acquaintance, "because I said they should set up shops to dry-clean and dye dogs and metallize shirt cuffs?" One day, everything gets even worse...
Then, too, minorities often take genuine pleasure in the culture of the majority. Many Jews enjoy the Christmas season for its songs and geniality, without feeling put upon to convert or run and hide. Buddhists may dye Easter eggs. Things inevitably get tense whenever a minority seeks to hold on to some cultural tenet that goes against the American grain (e.g., Mormons and polygamy), but in less extreme cases the tension works out to a compromise. Those who make concessions to the majority culture may be scorned as Uncle Toms or assimilationists, yet accommodation does not necessarily entail a loss...
...India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...