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Elise Garber married the first boy she ever kissed. She met him at an Outward Bound-style summer-camp program when she was 15, she "sort of dated" him for the summer, and then, like most teenage romances, it ended. Twenty-two years later, they met again on Facebook...
...done anything outrageous. The new updo wasn't really all that dramatic a departure from variations we've seen on her before (the "flip-out," the "flip-under," the long-ago abandoned "helmet"). Still, her hair is the catalyst for a conversation that begins with style but quickly transcends outward appearance and ultimately transcends Michelle herself - a symbol for African-American women's status in terms of beauty, acceptance and power. (See pictures of Michelle Obama's style evolution...
...failed effort to stage a dramatic march from the nearest intersection a couple of blocks away, in which Sheehan and her fellow protestors, wandering down a major city thoroughfare without sidewalks and braving a stream of impatient vehicles unused to delays, might have been recent graduates of the Outward Bound program in a city where presentation and composure are everything...
...University of Pittsburgh to image the brains of live patients - a leap forward in a field that long had to rely on postmortem analyses of brain tissue to confirm diagnoses after the fact - and showed that some 21% of patients with physical signs of dementia suffered no outward symptoms of cognitive impairment. (See how to prevent illness...
...maintain both a controlled, nondemocratic internal political system and an economy that was open to the world. China, after all, has managed something rather similar. An Iran that pursues its ambitions to be a nuclear power, however, will in the very best case be a country where an outward-oriented middle class feels increasingly disenfranchised, and hence likely to challenge the regime. The worst case, of course, is war, if Israel and the U.S. decide that the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is intolerable...