Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...department at Harvard, told me that "like any other area, [in whiteness studies] there's some high quality and some low quality and the high quality stuff is very important because...it forces people to think not just about whiteness in the abstract, but to really wrestle with white skin privilege in America. It's part of what it means to be modern, what it means to be American...When it's well done, definitely, it's a serious area." In a recent New York Times Magazine article "Getting Credit for Being White" (Nov. 30), Margaret Talbot examines the scope...
Creative genius allowed Izabel Lam to produce sensational dinnerware and cutlery designs. But to sell them successfully worldwide, she had to develop other qualities: a tough skin, a readiness to fight legal battles in country after country and a willingness to subordinate her artistic tastes to production considerations, though of a special sort. Her problem was one that bedevils many other American exporters and overseas manufacturers, big and small: design piracy...
...Scud" is "La Cosa Nostroid." Illustrated by one Edvis (whose goofy, facile style is as reminiscent of Phil Foglio as it is of Schrab), the book somehow manages to make immature, violent, half-cyborg mafiosi extraordinarily lovable. And Scud's silent sidekick Drywall--a little creature whose zippered skin leads into a infinitely large inner warehouse where he can store anything he needs--has for some reason become extremely popular among the readers of "Scud", and recently merited his own book (called, of course, "Drywall: Unzipped...
...question of whether or not to take estrogen. Once she reaches menopause, her body's supply of the natural hormone plummets, triggering such symptoms as night sweats and hot flashes. Decades of research have shown that estrogen is the closest thing to a perfect antiaging potion. It moisturizes the skin, maintains strong bones and protects against heart disease. It may even delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. There is one big catch, however: estrogen may increase as much as 40% the risk of developing breast or uterine cancer...
...sort of poker-faced lunacy that the nation hoped it had left behind. "In a war," said Nathan Thill, 19, explaining why he shot defenseless Mauritanian immigrant Oumar Dia, "everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out." Dia's "uniform" was apparently his skin color. Thill's "war," of course, existed only in his head. Or did it? Last week, after attacks on civilians and police by short-haired haters that left two people dead, one paralyzed and parts of the city looking like siege zones, Mayor Wellington Webb felt the need to pledge that...