Word: mask
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...internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god and so it had its sacrificial victim. At 26, U.S. skeleton driver Zach Lund uses the drug to reduce his hair loss, but it's banned because it can mask the use of steroids. As a result, he has been banished from the games. Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet Jones and close associates to gambling. Says an indignant Christine Keshen, a member of Canada's women...
...genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just as strong bonds are the path to avoiding depression, so they're the only escape route from its grip. Fortinberry says her depression was cured by her relationship with Murray. Antidepressants can only mask pain, she adds, while cognitive behavioral therapy is inherently flawed because it assumes that healing occurs from the inside out when really it happens from the outside...
...exhibition includes all 23 variations of Prototype for New Understanding, the ingenious things that first put Jungen on the map. Each Prototype is a Nike Air Jordan shoe--or shoes--that has been intricately cut, folded, glued and resewn into something that looks like a Northwest Coast native mask. Shoes are bunched into faces or halved lengthwise into beaks. Their tongues are repurposed as ears. Round plastic insets sometimes function as eyes, some with a silhouette of Michael Jordan inside, the last word in ornamental pupils...
That's when Jones' hobby turned into gallantry. Six years ago, Jones had taken up scuba diving. As the floodwaters arrived, he donned his swim trunks, scuba mask and snorkel and stepped outside into winds of more than 100 m.p.h., punctuated by the rumble of passing tornadoes. "I was more worried about flying debris than I was about what was beneath the water I was walking into," says Jones, who usually dives off placid sites like Key West, Fla., and Cozumel, Mexico. Still, the rising tide was "real dark, murky and stinky." He plunged in--at one point stepping perilously...
...they'll shop until Christmas Eve. A separate poll by consultants KPMG last week showed that more than 1 in 4 Britons hasn't even started yet. So it could be mayhem in the shops if they're after Roboraptors or the Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask, top toys in the Deloitte survey. Apple's new iPod nano is a favorite, too. Sudoku books continue their spectacular run and, for a truly harmonious holiday season, a new boxed set of Mozart's collected works by Brilliant Classics is retailing for less than...