Word: freedom
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...between beauty and healing." To improve my wellitude, I'm trying the 90-minute Faceology, a $180 procedure you've probably never heard of because Narayan made it up. It's a combination of three other things you've never heard of: reiki, facial reflexology and emotional-freedom techniques. Narayan, by the way, also made up her name, which used to be Kristi Marie Jones. Narayan, she says, means "protector and uplifter of all whose perception is as clear, clean and bright as flowing water," while Kristi Marie Jones means just "Kristi Marie Jones." She is not the only Narayan...
...this season the cost of engines sold to independent teams will be slashed by half and in-season car-testing has been banned. Further changes are set for 2010; proposals set out this month by the FIA, world motor sport's governing body, would see teams handed greater technical freedom in exchange for limiting their budgets to just $44 million. Spend more and teams would face tighter technical restrictions...
Belarus is in many ways a post-Soviet nation in name only. Its state security service is still called the KGB and the iron-fisted rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led the U.S. State Department to dub the country "Europe's last dictatorship." U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House included the country in its "Worst of the Worst 2009" report released earlier this month, naming Belarus one of the 21 most repressive places in the world...
...Fellow nude hiker Puistola Grottenpösch agrees, saying that the allure of walking naked "is all about freedom." For the past three decades, the 54-year-old engineer from Zurich has been unabashedly hiking in the altogether, in all kinds of climatic conditions, with no incident. "I wouldn't do this in Afghanistan," he concedes, but he insists on his right to walk naked on the trails of his own country, where public nudity - as long as it is not lewd - is perfectly legal. (See pictures of treasure-hunting in Afghanistan...
...answer, of course, was less important than what Burmese living under one of the world's most Orwellian regimes thought. And what they said surprised me. Yes, some deemed the elections "useless." Others conceded that the obstacles to even a semblance of electoral freedom are formidable. Before a single vote is cast, Burma's elections will be rigged. The newly minted constitution ensures that top leadership posts are reserved for the military, which, above all, appears to be motivated by self-preservation. Many members of the political opposition - including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who still languishes...