Word: preciousness
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...Mughals, the Muslim rulers of India from 1526 to 1858, were the Taliban's basic nightmare. They loved jewelry and ornamentation of all kinds, gleefully adapted local and European techniques and had a high threshold for excess. This eye-popping exhibition includes all one can imagine making with precious stones (dagger handles, walking sticks and fly whisks) and lots of things one cannot (a back scratcher, a pedestal for a huqqa--hookah, to some--and a conch-shell holder). The show, organized by the Kuwait National Museum and the Met, will also bedazzle London; Cleveland, Ohio; and Houston. Be warned...
Unrealistic, you cry. Utterly pointless, a waste of precious response-paper writing time. But why? Why, when we farm ourselves out to Habitats for Humanity and soup kitchens in Roxbury, can we not turn the philosophy of community service onto our own, where it is so conspicuously absent? Only in this way can we become full-fledged members of a community, and not just advocates of one. Only in this way does our rhetoric become something quite useful, and only in this way can we turn a debate mired in the Bushism of good versus evil to one that?...
Adult children of retirees want their parents to stay nearby. "This all makes you realize just how precious family is and that you don't want your loved ones living thousands of miles away at a time like this," says one of the Greenbergs' daughters, Caroline Crespo...
...them - rescue their flag airlines. (Governments can help carriers recoup only what they lost in the four days they couldn't fly to the U.S.) And the bigger carriers have won something that may prove even more valuable: a one-year moratorium on the sale of the precious airport slots they've vacated since cutting back on flights, thus protecting them from opportunistic competition from the discounters...
...wall shields her customers from prying eyes. Inside are pictures of female models torn from Pakistani magazines. On shelves beside a large mirror, she has a selection of lipsticks, eyeliners and hair sprays. In the West they would be commonplace. In a society that forbids them, they seem weirdly precious...