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...TIME: You look lovely today. Mika Kano (younger sister, wearing a pale yellow linen pants suit and revealing, sequined tank top): Thank you. Kyoko Kano (older sister, in a ruffly magenta top, slinky black pants and a 24-carat diamond ring): People look to us as style leaders. But this is one more aspect in which we simply do what we please. We never follow fads; we create them. Mika: My sister has the uncanny ability to spot clothing or accessories abroad that within the year become the rage in Japan. Kyoko: It's true. Japanese women are followers. They...
...wind up with Mexico's giving away all its mineral resources and business potential--including full ownership of big firms--in return for the U.S.'s allowing, say, a few thousand Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director of the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. "It's like anti...
Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Lil' Kim--all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. In a country notorious for its disdain for people of color--pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty--the emergence of a subculture fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity...
Overcoming long odds is something of a hallmark for Carson. Apart from reviving the hemispherectomy, he is world-renowned for his skill at successfully separating Siamese twins joined at the head. But as inspiring as Carson's surgical achievements may be, they almost pale before the story of his life. For if Carson had not gone to medical school, he might just as easily have landed in jail...
...country notorious for its disdain for people of color?even among Japanese, pale skin has traditionally been the highest mark of beauty?that a subculture has emerged fetishizing blacks raises numerous issues, from the proliferation and power of global image peddlers like MTV to very basic questions of racial and sexual identity. There is an objectifying component to the kokujo's particular infatuation, and by definition that is dehumanizing. If you are saying a black is better than a white, that's racism, albeit through a twisted, hip-hop hula hoop. And isn't part of the appeal of these...