Word: kingdoms
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...baby." The culture is being transformed by a charismatic young leader. (Everyone is watching Jackie Kennedy on TV giving tours of the White House.) It sounds timely, given the Obama candidacy, but in Don's world, Camelot is less about hope than about anxiety, not a magic kingdom but an invading force. Even the return of space hero John Glenn annoys Don's boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery), a WW II vet. "I'd like ticker tape for pulling out of my driveway and going around the block three times," he grumbles. "It's not like people were shooting...
...Some of the strangest stamps over the past couple of decades have come from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, or, more accurately, from a Pittsburgh-based company that produces stamps for Bhutan. Bhutan was the first to release 3-D stamps (including a series of masks and one of the country's much-loved mushrooms), silk stamps, steel stamps, scented stamps (way back in 1973) and even a stamp that could be played on a tiny record player. Now come the world's first CD-ROM stamps, containing documentaries about the country and marking Bhutan's political shift from...
Every country wants to be at the forefront of something. In Bhutan that something is cutting-edge postage stamps. The tiny Himalayan kingdom (or more accurately, the firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that makes Bhutan's stamps) was the first to release 3-D stamps, steel stamps, scented stamps (way back in 1973), even stamps that could be played on a tiny record player. Now come the world's first CD-ROM stamps. Self-adhesive wrappers contain documentaries marking the 100th anniversary of Bhutan's monarchy and its shift toward parliamentary democracy. And at nearly...
...admit they've paid as much as $5,250 to have their hymens reconstituted in private French clinics; others go to cities in Tunisia, Algeria, or Morocco, where the procedure is even more common, and costs as little as $300. Though the number of Muslim women in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, and France undergoing the procedure is unknown, there's a consensus among doctors that hymenoplasty is increasingly common. Ironically, as some commentators note, the increase in the procedure reflects the growing emancipation of women from tradition-rooted communities, but also the ongoing male oppression signified by the obsession...
WASHINGTON – I’m trying to feel homesick, but it’s hard to miss boredom. “D.C. is Disneyland for political junkies,” a friend once told me, and he’s right. Though the Kingdom of Pelosi isn’t the happiest place on earth – for Republicans, anyway – the city charms like a penny arcade...