Word: sunsets
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...scared and looking for security," says David Wolfe, creative director of the Doneger Group, a fashion-trend-forecasting company. "For young people, that manifests itself in classic, preppy clothes. It means the end of the pop-tart influence in fashion. Britney Spears may have to ride off into the sunset...
...approaches. A 3-year-old male tries to scare her off with a snarl, but she lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After a modest show of resistance, he retreats and, in a final display of submission, turns tail and slinks off into the sunset. She takes his place at the kill, tearing chunks from the giraffe's neck. A jackal watches from a distance, hoping for a few scraps when the lions are done. Farther away, by a clump of trees, four adult giraffes wait in vain for their young one to return...
...Seventh Day We Rested?" to suggest that the U.S. needs to have Sundays off as a day of rest [Aug. 2]. A large part of the U.S. population is Muslim, and the Islamic faith designates Friday as the day of prayer. Jews observe the Sabbath from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday. So how can we expect a pluralistic society like America's to settle on just one day of rest? When blue laws restricting what could be sold on Sundays were enforced, Jewish and Muslim Americans could not conduct business on two days of the week: the Sabbath...
...city of Angkor Thom (just more than a kilometer north of Angkor Wat and guarded by statues of 54 gods and devils), as well as the mountain temple on Phnom Bakheng, rising out of the jungle canopy beyond. The Angkor Balloon makes some 30 ascents daily, between sunrise and sunset, carrying up to 30 passengers at a time...
Still, the hassle of creating a nonprofit from whole cloth--and finding someone to run it--wasn't how he wanted to spend his sunset years. Instead, he went to the Denver Foundation, a 78-year-old community endowment program that has two functions: it invests money from local donors and distributes it to charitable organizations, and it also manages and administers charitable funds for individuals, families and businesses. (There are 600 such community foundations in the U.S.) Conover wanted to brainstorm with his old pal and CEO of the foundation, David Miller. "We batted around ideas for starting...