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...that it is no longer an ideology to be taken seriously. What would have happened, though, if Harry had not sported the swastika but opted for the hammer and the sickle instead? Would the public outcry have been as vocal and immediate, and as monolithically damning, if Harry had worn a Soviet instead of Nazi uniform? No, it most certainly would not have been. In our society communist paraphernalia is considered to be humorous or ironic; it is almost never viewed with the outright revulsion we reserve for the Nazis...
...Lawrence, is "flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind." Although at first glance it may seem a bit shabby chic, a style that cultivates a worn patina, it differs in philosophy, asking that we "set aside our judgments and our longing for perfection" and concentrate instead on "the beauty of things as they are." It celebrates the tiny flaws that make everything--your mismatched kitchen chairs, a worn teapot or the coffee table the kids have...
...three important ways--in the women who reported the highest stress levels. First, the cells had shorter telomeres--bits of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes. In lab experiments, scientists have shown that telomeres get a bit smaller every time a cell divides, and that when telomeres are worn out, cells can't divide anymore and ultimately die. In humans, older people tend to have shorter telomeres--and by this measure, the most stressed women in the study had cells that looked 10 years older than their chronological age. It's not an open-and-shut case that telomere...
Katie's brother Tyler, 6, is more at ease with all this. He obligingly pulls on the robe, cord belt and headdress worn by dozens of predecessor shepherds over years of Christmas pageants here at the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Ill. "Now, what do shepherds do?" asks pageant director Phyllis Green. "They protect their sheep," he says promptly. His older brother Drew, who at 8 has two years more of this particular story under his shepherd's belt, chimes in, "And the angels come...
This is not how I imagined an interview with Kenan Thompson should go. Worn out from a long day of interviews and autographing to promote his latest movie, Fat Albert, the normally effervescent, over-the-top young comedian who played such indelible Nickelodeon roles as Super Dude, Pierre Escargot and the bumbling employee of Good Burger, just does not have the energy for his trademark Bill Cosby impressions...