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Parts of Asia may lag behind in environmental awareness, and also be home to many of the world's sweatshops, but conscientious fashionistas shouldn't despair. There's a small but growing band of designers and entrepreneurs who are using materials and production methods that are kind to the earth, while sticking to decent labor practices. If you wear your green beliefs on your sleeve, here are three Asia-Pacific labels to watch...
...would if I could and you’re welcome anyway. Early on, he often prattled about Layla—sort of like chatting about the jungle-like conditions in Lamont with an acquaintance, a banal and neutral topic. “ALI: i have a heavy jet lag i distributed kharoof 3akikah.” What could you possibly mean, Ali, I thought? Procrastinating, I found that “kharoof” is the Arabic word for sheep and “akikah” the name for a baby shower. I imagined that he brought her three...
...sleep department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that maintaining a regular sleep schedule is just as important as getting the recommended eight to nine hours a night. “If you constantly have an irregular sleep cycle, you are going to induce jet-lag-like symptoms,” he said. When a student pulls an all-nighter, this cycle is broken and there will be a number of unpleasant consequences like fatigue and drowsiness. “When you’ve been awake for 24 hours, you are just as impaired...
...Harvard left.” By some measures, it did. Membership in the College Democrats, the Radcliffe Union of Students, the Institute of Politics, and Students for Choice has soared again, though not back to peak numbers. However, female representation in some of these groups continues to lag...
...only in that the region has attracted media attention in the wake of Katrina. Yet, despite the rhetoric about advances over the past 50 years, the problems of discrepant opportunities and resources still run rampant. In this vein, educational and employment opportunities for racial minorities still lag well behind those available to the privileged...