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...years, the mode in denim was dark - so dark that fashionistas were having their jeans dry-cleaned, lest they fade. But no more. Distressed denim is now the stylish option. So get out your oldest pair, chop off the hems, pin up the holes and throw on a thousand-dollar coat. Violà! The newest in street chic...
Indio is one of the premier watering places of an adventurous, uprooted, self-indulgent subculture that roams America's highways in $1 million buses. That's correct: $1,000,000 (give or take a few thousand...
...Right now, we're talking about a few thousand people, but it's not yet a humanitarian crisis - human rights and aid organizations in the area have not characterized it as such. It doesn't look like ethnic cleansing. Rather, it's a large number of civilians temporarily fleeing a battleground. Most have not declared themselves refugees, and say they'll return when the situation is normalized. They're taking shelter with relatives and friends rather than humanitarian agencies, so it appears that they see their situation as temporary. But if fighting resumes, it could easily become a humanitarian crisis...
...parents who hate him have something in common. Pills. Specifically, prescription painkillers like Vicodin. Eminem, who sports a Vicodin tattoo on his left arm, is the pill's unofficial spokesperson. Last month, in his duet with Elton John at the Grammys, he rapped, "I'm on a thousand downers now/ I'm drowsy." It's easy to imagine that, as they glared at the TV, boomers around the country alleviated their annoyance at Eminem's notoriety by swallowing the very drug their nemesis was naming...
...your breath. And no one would ever ask you to drop a quarter in a tin box for the right to free this invisible spirit from your lungs. Yet last November, Murphy Oil Corp., based in El Dorado, Ark., voluntarily shelled out several hundred thousand dollars for the right to cough out carbon dioxide, the same stuff you exhaled three sentences...