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...embrace the extremes of pant width, then who can? THREE TIPS FOR LEG-WIDENING 1) Pair these pants with something tighter on top so that you don’t look like you were in the wild with only a burlap sack for clothing and a twin with whom you could only speak twin language. 2) Don’t make your pants so long that they cover your shoes. Victoria Beckham is the only person I know who can do this, and that is because the title of her exceedingly long tell-all is “Learning...
...justify why one is suffering. While I can point to a specific and admittedly uncommon cause for my depression, others are not afforded such a socially acceptable explanation. In March of my senior year of high school, my father died unexpectedly from a massive stroke after heart surgery. My twin sister and I, having lost our mother to cancer when we were 12, worked with our siblings to sell our home as we departed for college. Rather than take a year off before school, I just wanted to move on, so I hid my issues behind the exciting change that...
...Keret's real subjects are Israel's teenage soldiers turned unsettled couch potatoes, the 20-something slacker veterans who live in the twin shadows of the Holocaust and their state's martial heritage. For all his imaginative pyrotechnics, Keret's aim is engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck...
DuPont, which suffered twin hits to both revenue and reputation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it had to phase out its production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons, has made a similar environmental pledge. It sold its Dacron, Lycra and Nylon division--all fossil-fuel-based fabrics--and is concentrating on bio-based materials like Sorona polymer made from starch found in the kernels of corn. DuPont hopes to more than double its revenue from nondepletable resources, to $8 billion by 2015. The company has also cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 72% since 1990 and is aiming for more...
...Twin Elephants...