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...Lillian Schapiro, 43, an ob-gyn in Atlanta, deconstructed the calculus very clearly in her consideration of hair color and professional edge. "People want their physician to look mature but also professional. My male colleagues gain respect with gray. If I kept my hair past my shoulders, as I wear it now, and went gray, I would look like a more alternative doctor. Most people want a conventional doctor. Gray hair on a woman is not conventional...
...legislative elections. In the four municipalities the PJD runs, Shari'a law has not been enforced. The PJD has understood that the electorate demands good governance, not banning alcohol or imposing a particular dress code on women. No liquor shop has been closed, no woman has been forced to wear the veil. This suggests that if the party eventually gains power, Morocco and Western critics would not necessarily have to fear an Islamist party...
When anyone cries "supernatural," neuroscientists have long rushed to find a natural cause. Now comes a study in Science that re-creates the sensation of being outside your body. Scientists in the U.K. and Switzerland had subjects wear virtual-reality goggles in which their own images appeared, then rubbed their backs with a stick while rubbing the virtual selves with a virtual stick. Sure enough, the subjects thought the fake image was the real them...
Iran's rulers are notorious for their mercurial ways, cracking down on some social freedoms one season and tolerating the most outrageous pastimes the next. The reliable exception has been standards of Islamic dress, which have been relaxed for years, allowing women to wear short coats and bright, pushed-back head scarves. But recently the rules changed overnight. As we inched out of the busy parking lot, I leaned out the window to warn a group of young women whose dress was sure to make them targets. "They're arresting people up ahead," I said. Only one nonchalantly tugged...
...army, his father was a brigadier general, his brother was a lieutenant general and he has cousins and nephews who are still serving - who tell him, he says, of "the deep simmering dissatisfaction over how the army is being used for political means." Soldiers have been told not to wear their uniforms on the street, and many young soldiers are declining home leave because they are sick of being insulted, he says. "Everyone is aware of the backlash against the army - and blames Musharraf," Khan says. The President would need a sure grip on his army before doing anything drastic...