Word: playful
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...civil society has a role to play as well, by mobilizing the public to push politicians ahead. The Climate Group - a global nonprofit - is sponsoring events in the U.S. and China in the lead-up to Copenhagen, trying to build a wave of public support for more-ambitious carbon cuts. "This is the moment," says Steve Howard, the Climate Group's CEO. "If we lose this chance, we may not get it back." That dripping sound could be our last opportunity to fix the climate...
...vital point. I had never thought twice about wearing a low-cut top in my home town, but when I moved to Paris I began to copy the demure style of Parisiennes. To ascribe this shift simply to changing attitudes in women ignores the important role that men play in forming a woman's own body image. Going about my daily life in Paris, I felt that men saw me as a sexual object more than I was used to and I responded by dressing more demurely. Young women are covering up in an attempt to preserve their identity...
...Kureishi himself. For a quarter-century his films, plays and novels have captured the motley qualities of post-colonial Britain - its Karachi-born taxi drivers, jack-booted skinheads, coked-up admen and firebrand mullahs. His latest work, now playing at London's National Theatre, dramatizes his 1993 novel The Black Album. Set in 1989, during the furor over Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, it follows a British Pakistani college boy torn between the delights of sex and Western culture and the lure of Islamic fundamentalism. The book is a fresh and funny bildungsroman, capturing an antic '80s London. Sadly...
...player with Italy's Serie A team Inter Milan, running more than six miles per game on an empty stomach might have proved to be too much. In his first match after the start of Ramadan, the midfielder was removed from the game after just half an hour of play. (See the top 10 most colorful religious festivals...
...Milan coach Jose Mourinho cited Muntari's "lack of energy" on the pitch as the reason for his removal, suggesting that "Ramadan has not arrived at the ideal moment for a player to play a football match." Mourinho hinted that he may keep Muntari out matches for the rest of the month, angering Muslims and troubling Inter Milan fans...