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...existent muscles. Midriffs, too, are common for both sexes, revealing ribs and hipbones to match. Piercings, facial and otherwise, make the crowded street sparkle like a Christmas tree. In a crowd like this, Americans certainly stand out like sore thumbs.This is about more than personal taste. The astonishing element of many of these trends is not the absurdity—fashion has been absurd for the entirety of documented human history—but that, on a biological scale, these standards of aesthetics are, objectively and cross-culturally, unattractive. If you’re into extremely convoluted academic essays full...
...critical design element for responsiveness and control, fins (a board can have up to five) are made using three major technologies that tailor the flex patterns by changing the fiber orientation...
...there was an element of strategic calculation behind the public remarks of U.S. officials, there was genuine emotion too. In private meetings with Abeer's relatives, military officers apologized repeatedly, and a one-star general hugged her two orphaned brothers. "The general seemed emotionally distressed. He was not pretending," concluded Mahdi Obeid Saleh, Abeer's cousin, who says he rushed to the crime scene and doused the flames on her burning body. Both Saleh and Army investigators initially thought the attack was the work of insurgents. "This is what happens when you harbor terrorists," a military translator lectured Saleh...
...measure would provoke howls from many Cuban exiles in Florida, while the second would irk U.S. business interests that would face competition from Brazilian imports. But if Richard Nixon could go to China, perhaps George W. Bush could discover Brazil--and stop making a failed Caribbean dictator an important element of U.S. policy. It could be that an embattled, second-term U.S. President looking for a legacy other than a botched attempt at installing democracy in faraway lands could warm up to the idea of leaving a permanent, positive mark in his country's own neighborhood...
...restart negotiations with the Palestinians rather than pursue solutions on its own. But will the Israelis be in a mood to talk anytime soon? "Things are so confused and not conducive to any kind of peace process," says Walid Awad, an Abbas aide in the West Bank. "An element of good judgment and patience is missing." It may be a while before it comes back...