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...seam in the lining of my coat had split. I mended it with lavender thread; it is not a repair you’d notice unless you turned the lining inside out. Still, it pleases me to think of the lavender stitches, to think that the next person to inherit this coat will look at those stitches and imagine me. In this small, invisible way, I have made...
Anti-aging creams are preventative. They will not work once you’ve already aged. Since the skin you take care of at age twenty is the skin you inherit at age thirty, you need to start now. Biotherm makes a fabulous product called “Age Fitness” that uses the ancient secrets of the olive to stop oxygenation, the main cause of aging. In one week fine lines are reduced and skin feels tighter. Take off three or four years from your face. You can look 17 again! Will only used the product once...
...Whoever succeeds Joe will inherit a school that is focused, intellectually vital, strongly engaged with the world and in healthy financial condition,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said after the faculty meeting, where he and others toasted Nye over champagne...
...life must make the world look different. Different than it looks to normal people who have to worry about money all their lives. Different than it looks to the conventionally rich, who get that way over the course of many years. Different, even, than it looks to those who inherit wealth and therefore grow up knowing it's coming. Of course! You get married, then you retire, then you have kids. That's life. In the stock-option culture, it makes perfect sense...
What Taylor will leave behind--and what the U.S. may soon inherit--is a nightmare. More than half the country is controlled by the two rebel groups that have battled Taylor's troops for the past three years. Both the rebels and the government forces are notorious for atrocities, including rape, cannibalism and the use of child soldiers. The fighting has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands to flee to refugee camps in the capital, Monrovia, where the population has been swelling to more than 1 million. Now the city faces a humanitarian catastrophe. Many people in the camps...