Word: gina
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...group insurers from charging different rates based on genetic information, according to a 2006 Connecticut Law Review article by Seton Hall law professor Gaia Bernstein. What is needed is a more explicitly comprehensive law banning insurer and employer discrimination—like the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a 420-3 vote...
...America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides contestants, "This is a singing competition." But is it really? When talented singers such as Gina Glocksen are voted off in favor of a tone-deaf Sanjaya Malakar, with his trainwreck performances, the question is whether Idol is really a singing competition, or something altogether different...
...preview was Target executive Trish Adams, the woman responsible for green-lighting the New York City designer as the retailer's latest glamorous liaison. Adams, it turns out, was more than a thousand miles away at the company's Minneapolis, Minn., headquarters. Nose down, no piccolo. Adams, like Gina Sprenger, her counterpart at Target's furniture division, is accustomed to toiling behind the scenes, brokering profitable alliances at a time when almost every mainstream retailer is craving a dose of designer cachet. These days you are nothing without your boldface co-conspirators. H&M has Madonna. Kohl's has engaged...
...Hirsie Mohamed Hirey, 38, depends on a charity in Leicester, England, to send him second-hand books. The first shipment of 31,200 contained some oddities - Disorder in Crystals, The Handbook of Hardwoods (3rd Edition, Part I) and Balancing the Load: Women, Gender and Transport by Pritanthi Fernando and Gina Porter. But there were also some surprisingly appropriate titles: The Tactical Uses of Passion by F.G. Bailey (1983), a box of The Essential Guide to Drugs and First Aid and an entire section on criminal law. Testifying to the tenacity and endurance of Somalia's entrepreneurs, Hirsie says, books...
...women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body, to foreign films, which had then what most of them lack now: star quality...