Word: perfectability
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...perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
Gradually, differences arise between the once inseparable Julia and Valentina. In the land of perfect oneness, asymmetries are afoot. Valentina wants to go out into the world and be a fashion designer. She feels trapped and smothered by their twinnish dyad. Julia wants to keep things as they are and feels betrayed by Valentina's growing independence. The distracting presences of Elspeth (whom only Valentina can see) and two attractive male neighbors push the girls further off balance. They can't stay together, and they can't separate. Something will have to give...
...filled thousands of years ago and replenished only very slowly. Experts predict that Sana'a, a city of almost 2 million, could run dry in as few as 10 years. The social upheaval from such an environmental catastrophe and the refugees it could produce might create an even more perfect breeding ground for al-Qaeda. "I tell [the U.N. refugee agency] that they should start buying tents" for drought-displaced families, says Michael Klingler, a hydrologist and the local director of GTZ, the German aid agency...
...meeting of the squads featured nearly full strength Harvard teams for the first time this season, as junior co-captains Claire Richardson and Jamie Olson as well as fellow junior Dan Chenoweth made their debuts for the Crimson. While the women steamrolled Yale on the way to a nearly perfect victory—placing nine of the top 10 runners, including the first six, for a 15-49 victory—the men needed every last second, with Chenoweth coming up huge...
...Advertisers would argue that doing so undermines the allure of perfectly photographed people and places in marketing campaigns, which, in many cases, is what sells. A svelte model with perfect skin, for example, is likely to make you want to eat high-fiber cereal more than a model with visible imperfections. Perhaps, says Boyer, but she believes that passing enhanced imagery off as the real thing is misleading. Her proposed legislation would require doctored photos meant for public distribution to carry the warning "Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person." Anyone violating the rule could be fined...