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...flies into Arbil, the sole sign of war is the airport's security. Kurdish soldiers--or peshmerga, as they are known--sit in tall watchtowers posted on the perimeter, and civilian vehicles are kept outside the airport gates, where baggage searchers wear ski masks to hide their faces. Flights from the new Kurdistan Airlines and other carriers arrive directly from Istanbul, Frankfurt, Dubai and Beirut. Austrian Airlines will add a Vienna flight next month...
...returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love to see Shari'a [Islamic law] in every home," he says. "But the reality is that some women don't wear...
...five meaningless games standing between it and a matchup with a No. 3 or 4 seed in the NCAA tournament. It’s most daunting remaining game (a road visit to Yale) takes place during the league’s closing weekend, meaning that the Quakers could probably wear those Ivy Champion caps and shirts they busted out the week before on the bus ride up to New Haven.That’s five weeks of rust and atrophy that can keep a team from being sharp when a perfect performance is necessary.Last season, Penn ripped apart any last...
With students lulled by temperate temperatures and sunny skies, Sunday’s blizzard brought a rude reminder of winter’s cold touch—and that ever-pressing question of what to wear. Faced with slushy, icy terrain on the Monday morning commute, students broke out bulky jackets and the occasional pair of moon boots. Shorts and flip-flops, which have been spotted around campus throughout the mild winter months, were definitely out. The cold snap brought confusion to some students’ outfits. “Sunday, I saw people running around in shorts, jumping...
Never mind applying creams and lotions-if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala, India, hopes so. The nonprofit organization-based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum-has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders...