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...Islam is "what it was for people when I was a kid - a quarter of their lives," he says. "You're a soccer fan, you go shopping, watch TV and you're a Muslim." The England Kureishi chronicles - indeed, helped create - is a country where Islam, curries and brown skin have become as British as Earl Grey tea and rain...
...That was back in 1989, when over 190 nations signed the Montreal Protocol, phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The decade before, scientists had discovered that CFCs were blowing a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, exposing us to dangerous ultraviolet radiation and boosting the risk of skin cancer. Today, CFCs are no longer in widespread use, and the ozone layer appears to be on the mend...
...still have three weeks left of sitting at home. Eek. Avoid this by making friends with someone from Hawaii or Miami during the fall. Your pasty Cambridge skin will thank...
...they are swimmers, they must swim. For these women, there are only two answers: a clever outfit that breathes or sequestration in a same-sex exercise facility. The athletic veil, known as the hijood, is made from high-tech fabric that's meant to wick sweat off the skin. It debuted when the Bahraini sprinter Rogaya Al Ghasara wore it while competing at the 2008 Olympics. While it takes a certain steely piety to wear the hijood - its slick ninja-esque style might be too assertively Muslim for some - the relative ease of sweating or swimming in something other than...
...want something that costs more, you pay the difference and you have some skin in the game," says Enthoven. In Massachusetts, which passed universal-health-insurance provisions in 2006, some 40% of residents who purchased policies through the state's exchange opted for the cheapest plans, called bronze policies, according to Trudy Lieberman, a health-policy journalist who recently reviewed that state's experience for Columbia Journalism Review...