Word: taina
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...World Health Organization's criteria for female genital mutilation as "procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons." This kind of cosmetic surgery can interfere with advocates' ability to fight forced ritual mutilation in places like Africa, where the practice is still common, says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of international women's rights watchdog Equality Now. Designer vaginas "are considered reasons for not throwing stones, so to speak, at other cultures," she says...
Some feminists charge that burqas in any form are offensive to women. "Clearly you're not considered a full human being if you're mandated to cover yourself head to toe in this tent," says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of Equality Now, the international women's-rights watchdog. Sabet responds that Muslim men too have a dress code: the Koran forbids them to wear saffron or silk or expose skin from navel to knee. But Imam Mohamed Magid, who heads a moderate mosque in Sterling, Va., calls debate over Islamic clothing misdirected. "I wish there was more talk about...
...Tahiti's Taina Marina, a witness reported, he overheard "a quarrel between the two brothers" on July 6. That same day Saldo phoned a friend to say they would soon be leaving Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands. Karlan left a voice-mail message for her parents: "Everything is going super." That was the last anyone would ever hear from Saldo, Karlan or Dele. Three days later the Hakuna Matata was spotted by a hotel employee in the lagoon of the nearby island of Moorea with one person onboard--possibly Dabord. Sometime around July 18, the boat turned up docked...
...fact, one of the few lights for Hispanics on English-language TV is children's TV, especially Nickelodeon, which has two Hispanic family sitcoms, The Brothers Garcia and Taina. And Nick's Dora the Explorer, a cartoon for small children with a Latina heroine and a smattering of Spanish, also runs on CBS's Saturday morning, where it has proved...