Word: less
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While darker skin tends to burn less easily, everyone needs protection, including African Americans. Here are some simple rules you shouldn't forget...
...Cover all exposed parts of your body, including less accessible places like the legs, the back of the neck and the tops of the ears...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...
...parents defused our sibling fights by enforcing some unusual ground rules at home. My siblings and I were told to treat the word hate like a forbidden swear word. We also couldn't tell one another to "shut up." Without access to this sort of incendiary language, fighting was less satisfying. And although no one ever insisted that I had to like my brother and sisters (yuck!), we were expected to be grudgingly loyal to one another. This was driven home to me the time my big sisters intervened in a problem I was having with a playmate by telling...
...father. Webre took his first dance lesson as an undergraduate at the University of Texas. At 29, he became head of the New Jersey-based American Repertory Ballet, turning an obscure regional troupe into a forward-looking ensemble with a reputation for unpredictability. The lackluster Washington Ballet was no less in need of new thinking, not least because it had failed to attract a racially diverse audience, an invitation to trouble in a city whose political establishment is overwhelmingly black. "Ballet as an institution has always been racist," Webre says matter-of-factly. "We have to change that. We have...