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...American imam becomes de facto mayor of his Muslim community. A line of congregants often stretches outside Magid's office filled with followers asking for all kinds of help. Finding love, for example, can be difficult for observant Muslims scattered in U.S. cities; Islam forbids physical contact in dating or cruising for mates in nightclubs that serve alcohol. A breathless young man once phoned Magid in the middle of the night to ask if he could perform a marriage in a parking lot "right now" so the suitor and the woman in his car wouldn't feel guilty about what...
Sport Shades Inventor: Alan Reichow at Pacific University for Nike Availability: Now, $60 for box of six lenses. Purchase requires fitting by a professional; monthly replacement recommended. To Learn More: nikevision.com & bauschlomb.com These amber-tinted MaxSight contact lenses from Nike filter out blue light to reduce glare and improve the visibility of baseballs, tennis balls and other moving targets. A gray-green version gives golfers an edge by enhancing the dips and curves of a distant putting green. Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts credits his MaxSights with boosting his batting average last season; Michelle Wie wore them during her professional...
...doorway that conforms to the shape of your body doesn't appeal to you, how about the one-use, recyclable camcorder? If not that, how about the contact-lens sunglasses or the around-the-world airplane or the implantable bandage or the robot exoskeleton that can help the elderly and the disabled walk...
First of all, when you have completed a night out on the town or if you have had a particularly inebriated week, going to bed without a) taking off your eye make-up, b) taking out your contact lenses, c) drinking (at least!) two cups of water, and d) brushing your teeth will ensure you a painful morning. Of course, if you are “crashing” in someone else’s room, some of these steps might be more difficult to execute than others. (And the groan in the morning may still come once you have...
...Summers told professors and members of the Harvard Corporation last fall that he planned to ask Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to leave his post at the end of that academic year, according to a professor close to the central administration and an individual in regular contact with members of the Corporation.Summers set the plan aside when the controversy over his January remarks on women in science made such a move politically infeasible, according to the sources. “Kirby’s ouster was put on hold indefinitely” after last spring?...