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I’m over my Vamp nail polish phase. In retrospect, maybe it did make my fingertips look like a hammer had hit them. The “bruised” nail polish look wasn’t the best choice for me. For now, I’ll keep my nails short and natural-looking. The clean look of a French manicure and drama-free, nude nail polish [...]
Tongue ‘n’ Chic By Cheyne Jackson SJOBECK After their debut show with BOXeight at the Los Angeles Theater (home of the recent BOXeight fashion week), Sjobeck—a group of Malibu locals—took to the runway. The collection was inspired by the cowboy grandfather of Garrett Gerson, one of Sjobeck’s designers. [...]
Dr. Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), a Washington-based think tank focused on energy security. He is also co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, an alliance of environmental, labor, national-security and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. He is [...]
Fellow citizens of the U.S., you can not believe all of the current environmental issues that have been coming to my attention. It is scary to see just how much environmental pollution is out there. I don’t know if people realize that while it is wonderful to progress into the future and look for green [...]
Santino, a 30-year-old chimpanzee who has lived in a Swedish zoo most of his life, is the only male in a group of half a dozen females. He shows displeasure at human observers and flings stones or bits of concrete at them, but quickly finding suitable weapons isn’t an easy task, so the chimp starts [...]
“More than 34,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year,” says the website of the Oral Cancer Foundation. “It will cause over 8,000 deaths.” Tannaz Goodjohn helps to fight it. A graduate of UCLA’s dental school, she is the founder of Dental Boutique, a dental practice with an emphasis in [...]
In an attempt to address the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against China Pro-Tibet, protesters tried to break through a police line guarding the Chinese embassy. Approximately 12 activists charged the barrier line during a march from Parliament House in support of Tibetan independence. During the incident there was a heated argument between demonstrators [...]
China reported that a U.S. Navy ship was involved in a confrontation with some of its vessels off the southern island of Hainan. They said the incident violated international law. Ma Zhaoxu Foreign ministry spokesman said that U.S. reports that five Chinese vessels harassed the USNS Impeccable were “totally inaccurate”. China requested that the U.S. [...]
A look Back… Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dennis Kucinich is the eldest of seven children. His family struggled financially, moving often and by the time Kucinich was 17, he had lived in 21 different places. Some of his early jobs included being a hospital orderly, newspaper copy boy, teacher, consultant, television analyst and [...]
