Word: non
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...joining this group on behalf of my non-Facebook boyfriend who screams in agony whenever this commercial starts," wrote one commenter. "I have two ice picks that I keep by the couch to jab into my ears when it comes on," wrote another. "Helps." A clever YouTube user spliced "Saved by Zero" screen grabs into the trailer for The Ring, a horror film. The plot: if you see the commercial, you die. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...growing popularity of female genital cosmetic surgery could have troubling ramifications beyond the effects for individual patients. Broadly speaking, these surgeries may meet the World Health Organization's criteria for female genital mutilation as "procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons." This kind of cosmetic surgery can interfere with advocates' ability to fight forced ritual mutilation in places like Africa, where the practice is still common, says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of international women's rights watchdog Equality Now. Designer vaginas "are considered reasons for not throwing stones, so to speak...
...despite the turnout, one notable voice was missing from the proceedings. University President Drew G. Faust was in New York City as a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction, Smith said...
...urban” phenomena. Instead of an Office of Urban Policy, what the federal government needs is an Office of Regional Policy, recognizing that a holistic approach to environmental, demographic, and development planning lies at the center of solving the reciprocal blights that afflict urban and non-urban places alike...
...best intentions of these planners, though, the urban renewal era is widely considered a failure, and it did very little to stop the dramatic decay of cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Why? Largely because of cheap land and interstate highway access to new suburban communities. In other words, non-urban alternatives dictated an urban problem...