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Alexandra Avakian made three trips to Lebanon in 2005, with the daunting ambition of getting closer to Hizballah than any Western photojournalist before her. She expected to be assigned an escort, but none was necessary. "Party discipline is so tight, no one was going to reveal any secrets," says Avakian. "Members have to report on all the contacts they have with outsiders." She was allowed to see each of her subjects only once, and she was stopped a few times. "Out of nowhere a security agent appeared on a motorcycle," she recalls. "One time my digital camera was taken...
Damascus is my favorite Middle Eastern city. I love it not only for what locals call in English its "touristic" qualities, but also for the ones that remind me of my home in Iowa: both societies share an appreciation for tight-knit families and lifetime friendships; socially conservative "family values"; and traditional comfort foods, with shish taouk and mezze standing in for the steak and salad dinners that dominated Iowa's menus when I was a child...
...bodies, which correspond to higher estrogen levels and more advantageous fat distribution—curvier girls get pregnant easily and can have truckloads of children. So why is the fashion industry emphasizing this totally unprecedented aesthetic? When I look at the fashion-forward Europeans, all I see is disaster. Tight jeans on men make them look sterile; lack of muscle definition and visible bones both look like malnourishment—which comes with a whole package of exciting side effects, like anemia, bone loss, and decreased testosterone levels, according to the Mayo Clinic. A complete lack of body fat?...
...Back at the hospital, the bodies wrapped in blankets and plastic sheets and bound tight with tape are lowered from a refrigerated truck into the carpenter Salem's pine coffins. Some of the bagged bodies are pathetically small - hospital officials say that over half of them are children. Other coffins are filled with several shopping bags, all that remains of some of the victims. The bodies had been stored in a makeshift morgue - a refrigerated meat transport truck brought from Tripoli in northern Lebanon at the outset of the war in anticipation of many fatalities. But the corpses are rotting...
...People are fed up with Cynthia McKinney," and "it crosses racial boundaries," said Jeff Dickerson, an African-American constituent of McKinney's and a panelist on the political TV talk show The Georgia Gang who predicted a tight runoff race. "I think that there's a quiet campaign among African-American voters" against her, he added...