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...This labored enthusiasm serves as a red flag to eating disorders educators like Meehan. "One of the primary goals of anorexics is to persuade others that they are perfectly fine, and that they have the right to lead their lives however they see fit," says Meehan. "And one of the ways of doing that is to find other people who are achieving those goals - so these web sites provide not only reinforcement, along with a forum for exchanging and picking up tips...
...from the N.C.M.M. permitting him to export contemporary arts and crafts--but not antiquities--Lagos dealer Chinedu Idezuna recently booked a crateful of works onto a flight to Amsterdam. "Customs officials check the shipment for narcotics, for this and that, but because I've got the letter, I'm fine," he says. "Our government doesn't permit it, of course, but we gallery owners get [objects] out by telling [customs officials] that we are having a show of African culture...
...makeshift nature of Cissokho's showroom may contribute to the bargains he is able to offer, but similar deals can be found elsewhere. An online auction by the Howard S. Rose Gallery in Manhattan featured a number of Noks, including a "fine large-size sculptural terra-cotta, low-fire ceramic human head" with a minimum required bid of just $2,300. A woman who answered the phone at the gallery insisted that the items were "certifiably genuine." When asked about Nigeria's prohibition on the export and sale of Noks, she replied, "Maybe they were here before this...
...know she gave the lie to the idea that there are no second-acts to American lives. Second or third-acts are fine. But eight or nine acts? It's wearying...
...guilty of it, especially in the dwindling summer months - procrastinating any task that seems remotely effortful until some far off point we hope will never come. Of course, that point always does come, and it's usually not fun. Congressional lawmakers and White House staff negotiating the fine print of the education reform bill now find themselves in just such an undesirable spot, suddenly faced with all the sticky issues they saved for later...