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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...
About half the surviving works - some illuminated in gold and crimson, others illustrated with maps - are intact. But even the best works are fragile, the pages brittle, the covers damaged. "There are a lot of problems with the manuscripts," says Timbuktu's imam Ali Imam Ben Essayouti, 62, who has bought several manuscripts from locals who need the cash and sense they might otherwise lose them altogether. "Houses collapse in the rain. The termites eat them. People borrow them and never bring them back...
Mugabe is still in control of most of the levers of state power in Zimbabwe; his network of patronage remains intact. Tsvangirai, on the other hand, has stood powerless as farm invasions continue, and members of his own party have faced abuse at the hands of state security agents...
...audiology at New York University. In humans too, the urge to swear likely stems from primitive parts, but it is usually overridden by commands from the brain's more complex cortex - the abundant gray matter on which humans rely for language and reason, among other sophisticated abilities. "We have intact frontal lobes, which inhibit these responses," Sidtis explains. But in certain circumstances - either because we don't bother to inhibit them or because the shock of pain or discomfort momentarily surpasses the safeguards - our impulse for obscenity takes over. "In that way, it's like the dog when you step...
...Supreme Court's ruling that new haven, Conn., violated 20 white and Hispanic firefighters' rights by scrapping a promotions test that few black candidates passed leaves city officials in a bind. Lose the test and you punish those who aced it. Keep it and you risk leaving intact a lack of diversity at the fire department's senior levels...