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When Talal Al-Dehaim's friends learned last summer that he was leaving Saudi Arabia to go to college in the U.S., they told him it might not be a good idea. Attending an American school had been almost a rite of passage for ambitious Saudis, but after the 9/11 attacks and the discovery that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from the desert kingdom, many Saudi students, as well as those from other Arab and Muslim countries, rushed home fearful of repercussions. Few filled their places. As he made the long journey from Riyadh to Marshall University in Huntington...
Clinics like the one Hillesheim visited--that one run by the Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic--are expanding rapidly, popping up in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets and such drugstores as CVS and Rite Aid. Wal-Mart Stores, which has nine in-store dispensaries, has announced plans to bring the total to more than 50 this year. The clinics are open to employees as well as the public, allowing Wal-Mart to address two high-profile issues. The first is criticism that it doesn't provide medical coverage to enough of its 1.2 million U.S. employees. The second goes beyond Wal-Mart: the prospect...
...Oréal Paris True Match Super-Blendable makeup and powder ($9.99 each), with 24 shades to choose from, are best sellers at Rite Aid on Market Street...
...serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness. But just there, floating from the left...
...mail. “If you’re a college student and you don’t want your sister in high school to see your photos, you can make them inaccessible to her,” he wrote. Getting a facebook account has become a rite of passage for matriculating college students, a rite that many are not willing to share with high schoolers. “There are some college kids who are pissed and want to keep the network to themselves,” Hughes told The Crimson in September, when Facebook opened its high school...