Word: scarfs
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...sort of like it and it makes me warmer,” Binkley said. “It’s like a built-in scarf...
...KNOW YOUR LIMITS Pay someone else to shovel the sidewalk if you have a heart condition. Cold air can be particularly hard on your lungs if you have asthma, but it can also trigger problems in folks who don't. Wearing a scarf or mask will reduce the amount of cold air going into your lungs. Call your doctor if you cough a lot and develop shortness of breath after exercising. "Minus 10 is not that bad if you're dressed for it and are used to it," says Dr. Roberts...
First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues—women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American” simply because some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place...
Howard said the same day she found out about her impending Ad Board case, the Tibetan Assocation of Boston honored her with a white silk scarf called a katag, a sign of respect in Tibet...
...Symbols are tricky. They mean different things to different people. In France, those wearing a head scarf, yarmulke or crucifix see these adornments as symbols of personal devotion to Islam, Judaism or Catholicism. But members of the French political and intellectual establishment regard them as deliberate challenges to the secular nature of the republic. Americans, meanwhile, think of skyscrapers as testaments to the can-do spirit of American capitalism. (The Empire State Building was erected during the Great Depression!) Islamic fundamentalists, as we learned two years ago, see skyscrapers as idolatrous emblems of a society that serves Mammon rather than...