Word: gearing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage girls can be found commiserating about their labia. "i REALLY h8 mine! They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!" reads one comment. Meanwhile, on MakeMeHeal.com, a consumer site that sells special bras and other gear for women recovering from plastic surgery, women of all ages submit photos of their nether regions and ask for feedback on whether they should get nipped and tucked down there. Welcome to the strange new world of female genital cosmetic surgery, where body insecurity issues are fueling a small but growing Western market for such...
...Antonio is the first in a new class of amphibious ships - blue-water buses - each of which carries 350 sailors and is responsible for ferrying 700 Marines and their gear to global hot spots. And the ship's sad plight represents in miniature all that is wrong with the way the Pentagon buys its weapons. The pattern of haste and waste accelerated in the Cold War's wake and simply exploded following 9/11. It highlights the challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama as he contemplates retooling an Industrial Age military - primed for state-on-state warfare - into the more agile...
...tower—to speak to students about his worldwide climbing adventures. Sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Dash’s multimedia presentation in the Fong Auditorium featured a set of videos and a photo slideshow from his experiences, as well as a raffle of Mountain Hardware climbing gear. Mountaineering Club President Kevin F. Jones ’10 said the goal of the event was to “inspire members to think bigger and broader” about opportunities in alpine climbing, adding that the club chose Dash for the event because of his unconventional, trailblazing experiences...
...wear any protective gear? We have protective vests. And then probably 30 to 40% of the guys are wearing helmets...
...Politely ask voters wearing candidate propaganda to remove their gear (per law in Virginia). Offer them an oversize men's shirt to wear over their buttons and T shirts as an alternative...