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...flaming pink and green shoebox plummeted from the Weeks Footbridge into a dark Charles River, flipping over and sinking. “Mather, it is,” reverberated across the river bank from the middle of the bridge...
...accessory department this season. Cartier is offering a limited-edition shagreen jewelry pouch, and Bill Blass has launched a new line of shagreen-banded watches. "Some customers like [shagreen] because it resembles pavé-set gems," says jeweler Stephen Webster, whose eponymous lines - seen on celebs like Pink and Oprah - feature some shagreen items. But does harvesting stingrays for fashion have an environmental impact? Stingrays are not listed under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. But the stingray look has some experts concerned. "Because they aren't traditional, high-value fish food, sharks, skates and rays...
...thoughtful discussion, however, ensues early on with the authors advancing that gender stereotyping starts very early with the traditional pink for girls and blue for boys. Until the twentieth century the authors argue that portraits of children from infancy all the way to age five were basically indistinguishable by sex. Peering into stereotypes that start in girlhood, the authors discuss favorites such as the “daddy’s girl”—a manifestation of maternal jealousy coupled with an inner drive fueled by a father’s support?...
...very little ironing experience, I wasn’t aware of the importance of setting the iron to the correct heat option, depending on the fabric. Within half a second of touching the iron to the shirt, I had singed a three-inch whole into it—the pink patch of fabric actually melted onto the iron! We had no way to replace the shirt before our performance the next morning. Luckily, Christina is a whiz with the needle and, even though a good portion of the fabric was missing, sewed it up to look like a dart...
...pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics was Champollion's great work, and Meyerson tells the story as a passionate linguistic love affair. After finally solving the mystery, Champol lion collapsed in a coma...