Word: lighteners
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Don’t get me wrong: FM is a serious journalistic endeavor, all the better for its in-depth, investigative cover pieces. Nonetheless, when Lisa K. Pinsley and I took the helm of the mag, we felt a burning desire to lighten things up. Actually, we—like all uppity, sarcastic FM editors—really just wanted to make fun of other people in public. But it turns out that mocking others (especially those who are probably better than you) is not easy. In fact, quality ridicule takes finesse, friendliness, focus, and a number of other words...
...Kenya Bureau of Standards. Still, he says, many of the more harmful products continue to sell because people want quick results. "Are you familiar with the 50-50 concept: someone who has one black parent and one white?" he asks, explaining the social pressures on women to lighten their skin. "When a girl like that walks into a bar all the men will look at her. So other girls want to make themselves like that...
...mountain and you're at 11,000 ft.--in a hallowed piece of Rocky Mountain forest where the air is light and the trees fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers who cut off their toothbrush handles to lighten their loads. You're not even winded. Charlie Cox, a carpet-store owner from Glenwood Springs who heads the local snowmobilers' club, stares at a sheer red cliff glowing in the distance. "This is something we don't tell people in New York about," he says. "Or Denver." Cox, 51, climbs back...
...American purposes because of its proximity to the Korean peninsula and the rest of Asia. From the standpoint of the government in Tokyo, keeping so many American troops in Okinawa makes sense; that way they are segregated from the Japanese mainland. Koizumi has said, however, that he wants to "lighten the burden" on the island. Japanese have paid rapt attention to the debate on the U.S. bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and to Washington's decision to close the range in 2003. But the chances of such a dispensation for Okinawa are zero. "The presence of American forces...
...rest of Asia. It suits Tokyo's in two ways: the U.S. presence reduces Japan's need for fielding its own army, and it segregates a substantial portion of the American military machine from the mainland. Koizumi said in a recent speech in Okinawa that he wanted to "lighten the burden" on the island, and former President Bill Clinton last summer suggested the U.S. would reduce the size of America's "footprint" on Okinawa. But the new Administration in Washington maintains that Asia is its main security focus?and that Okinawa is integral. "The presence of American forces on Okinawa...