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...composite of Chanel's aunt and her sister), she rips apart a corset, giving Adrienne's lush body a chance to move within the clothing. As a young woman, vacationing with her lover at the beach, she covets the simplicity of the striped sweaters the sailors wear to mind their nets. (See pictures of Snuggie on the runway...
...have reported having H1N1 symptoms. At Emory University in Atlanta, sick kids are relocated to a dorm dubbed Club Swine. But H1N1 has also homed in on the weaknesses in our heads - hovering in the blind spots where our risk analyses break down, just beyond the view of our mind's eye. What is the defense for the mind games of a virus...
...read a news story about a real-life, healthy teenage girl from Milwaukee who had caught H1N1 in the spring and died. The group reacted with intense discomfort and then did what humans do: they looked for a way to fit it into one of the boxes in their mind. Some speculated that the girl's doctor must have made a mistake and that's why she died. Another woman wondered if perhaps the girl had been doing whippits - inhaling nitrous oxide - and that had contributed to her death. If we tell ourselves that we can prevent catastrophe by avoiding...
...fine—so HUDS probably had more in mind than promoting games like this when it made these advisories. Yet its messages aren’t good for much more. The advice they offer is confused and largely superficial. Suggestions that students wash their hands before eating are common sense and should be applied before every meal, not just during swine-flu season. The health messages it prints often seem to arise more out of a desire not be held liable than out of genuine concern. Nutrition fact placards disappeared when some people complained, for instance, but they later...
...sight of Afghan men camped in squalid settlements around Calais is hardly new. Over the past decade - and even before the 2001 Afghanistan war began - thousands of Afghans have traveled illegally on epic journeys that last weeks and cross several borders. They all have one goal in mind: to sneak aboard container trucks on ferry boats bound for Britain, where they see their best prospects. With no national identity cards in Britain, illegal immigrants for years have found it easier to escape notice there than in France, where police frequently check immigrants' documents in the streets. (Read "Postcard from Calais...