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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Blacks make the false assumption that, because the new black politicians have somewhat dark skin, they in fact share the same goals and do not need to say so. When pressed a year after the aforementioned debate, Obama admitted he was against reparations for slavery. He can support giving $700 billion to corporate crooks and incompetents, but he cannot support reparations for slavery. Obviously, he knew he would still get 99 percent of the black vote...

Author: By Jonathan D. Farley | Title: The New Black Politics | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Relax. If you can't find time to get away for the whole weekend, the Chopra Center & Spa in New York City is offering the "Cupid's Kiss" package starting with a Navina Sensory Bath - filled with herbs and essentials oils to detoxify and replenish the skin - for two. Once waterlogged, you start an 80-min. Odyssey Ayurvedic treatment with five therapies - among them, a Garshana exfoliating treatment, an Abhyanga tension-dissolving massage and a Vishesh treatment, during which technicians use firm, precise hand strokes to deepen the healing process. The tactile adventure finishes off with a Marma treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valentine's Deals That You'll Love | 1/26/2009 | See Source »

...below 10,000 feet - Flight 1549 was at about 3,000 feet, leaving Sullenberger and Skiles a shorter checklist. But experts also note that a controlled landing on water can be more dangerous than a similar emergency landing on land. In a water landing, an aircraft's aluminum skin can bend and dent on impact, providing less protection for passengers. Crashing on a runway often crushes a plane's belly and undercarriage, which absorbs some of the blow. On the other hand, some emergency water landings (both uncontrolled and controlled) have had relatively minor fatalities. This TIME story from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning from Flight 1549: How to Land on Water | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

...species to paper." Holmes describes us quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore no more than a loose animal skin even in sleet and snow, and the Yana Indians of California, whose men and women speak different dialects. She has an engaging passion for rankings, as if all earthly fauna were competitors in an endless evolutionary Olympics. Our sense of taste, for example, outperforms a pigeon's and a tiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Inner Animal | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...painful-looking injections right over his eye as part of his "lunchtime lift," i.e., a mini-face-lift so speedy and subtle you can go back to work that day, the good doctor asks me if I'm ready for my shots. At 37, and complimented more on my skin than on any of my other stunning physical attributes, I didn't expect to be told I needed Botox. "I would suggest just lightly across your forehead," he says. As I ponder this, he keeps going. "You have a very thick brow and deep-set eyes. It would be nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boytox: Botox for Men | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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