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...their lives. I live right on top of an Israeli checkpoint on the line between East and West Jerusalem and each night I watch the police detain every Palestinian car that passes. Sometimes, the Palestinians are waived through after a quick paper check; other times they are detained at length. On one occasion I watched three Israeli soldiers threaten to beat a Palestinian...
...country in collegiate polls, ahead of Olympian Erik Vendt and just six seconds short of a national age group record. The win also broke the Princeton pool record for the event, previously held by Harvard sophomore Andrew McConnell with a time of 9:03.04. Cole swam each length in an average time of 13.4 seconds...
PRODUCTS Perms, dyes and especially extensions, which involve strategically gluing individual fake lashes to add thickness and length...
Rachel Martin's present for her ninth birthday came wrapped in silver spandex. The 5-ft.7-in. gift walked in on a red carpet, stripped off her floor-length black coat to reveal silver hip huggers and a matching tube top and sang, "I think I did it again/I made you believe..." And for a few wondrous moments, Rachel and her 10 girlfriends did believe that Britney Spears was in the house, lip-synching in front of the marble fireplace and rocking chair in Rachel's North Salem, N.Y., living room. On this recent Saturday, Shannon Connor, 21, an impersonator...
Going by the book may be a dubious practice when it comes to textbooks. A recent study by North Carolina State University documented thousands of errors in 12 of the most widely used middle school science texts: the Statue of Liberty is a lefty? Volume equals length times depth--and never mind height? It was merely the latest illumination of textbook bungling. In 1999 the mathematicians enlisted to review math books submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed...