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Picture a much younger Martha Stewart with a Scottish accent, marketed to the Ikea demographic, and you have McKevitt. Through her home-design TV shows, books and branded lines of bedding, paint and tiles, McKevitt, 33, has styled herself Britain's premier living brand. In September the former hairdresser's assistant who left home at 15 will tackle the U.S. market through home-shopping shows, catalogs and the Internet...
...Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Destiny's Child?all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. The phenomenon has already become a pop-culture staple, propelling hip-hop acts like Dragon Ash to Japanese platinum success and launching the career of best-selling novelist Amy Yamada, whose memoirish Bedroom Eyes detailed a Japanese woman's sexual exploits with black servicemen...
...flown by the Israeli air force demolished a Palestinian police station in Ramallah in retaliation for the latest terrorist outrage in Jerusalem, U.S. Air Force F-16s bombed Iraqi air defense sites. This came at a time when Saddam Hussein has been doing his utmost, with considerable success, to paint himself as the Arab savior of the Palestinians and his American foes as the as the co-conspirator of the Israelis. Whatever damage the air raids did to Iraqi air defenses may be more than compensated for in the political dividend for Saddam...
...line the stuffy waiting room. Barred windows send blocks of light onto a once white linoleum floor. Although this is a hospital, it smells of neither sterilization fluid nor menthol rub, but of human sweat. Along a dim hallway, young women in all stages of pregnancy wait on more paint-chipped benches. A metal examination table, stirrups down and unused, lies to one side. There is no central air-conditioning...
...rate of infection in Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization officially puts it at 2.99% of the country's 4.7 million people, but an internal who report late last year conceded that this figure was "difficult to believe" and "grossly underestimate[s] the magnitude of the problem." Other studies paint a bleak picture. A 1996 Ministry of Health and Sanitation survey found an 8.6% infection rate among police. By 1997 the rate among pregnant women in urban areas was 7%. In a 1999 recruitment drive the Sierra Leone army tested 1,099 candidates - mostly young men - for HIV. More than...