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...have blond hair, nor blue eyes, and I've never relied on the sun to keep my God-given tan intact. But thankfully, I was fortunate to have a mother who made me - braces, glasses and all - feel beautiful, even when most boys and magazines around me did not. She introduced me to countless black beauties who did not look like Farrah, but who too were beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Naomi Sims, the First Black Supermodel | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

...question. One is that Americans with money are the kids in the global candy store; they want everything, and they buy everything, laying waste to the environment and helping enact political policies that help the rich get even richer. In this model, rich Americans will never give up their God-given right to buy a hulking new six-burner range even if they never cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Psychology: We Will Spend Again | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...mere ideology. If human rights are not intrinsic, where might they come from, that is by whom or what are they granted? The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not arrogate for themselves or for their respective governments such a power, but merely recognized certain rights to be God-given. Even the drafters of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights appear by their language to have recognized certain natural rights, though the distinction between these and legal rights is less clear there. The quotes from various researchers in the article betray a lack of interest in the moral...

Author: By Alan C O'connor | Title: Morals of Stem-Cell Research | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...signs will be plucked, stickers will peel, and all the while pepsi will remain its newly diminutive self. But as a recently revealed internal branding document entitled “Breathtaking Design Strategy” claims, the new Pepsi logo is in fact based on the tried-and-true, God-given Golden Ratio; they call it “aesthetic geometry.” Or in AdSpeak, “We can’t believe you paid us that much money to move some lines around.”The biggest problem PepsiCo. faces, it seems, will be curbing...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pepsi Calls for Responsibility | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Inaugural Address: The Full Text | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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