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...stood naked in the bathtub, warm water running, I watched inch-long hairs peel off into a watery mélange of foamy white shaving cream and occasional drops of blood. I awkwardly maneuvered my body as I shaved the rear of my thighs, only breaking more skin in my futile attempt to be careful and precise. An analgesic layer of lotion, though, assuaged the dry areas and the numerous cuts. I had legs, but I didn’t know how to use them...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of Miss Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...other is about product, doing task A so that product B can be sold to consumer C. Each also requires wildly different outfits. And generally at work - at my work, anyway - you come much less in contact with human waste. Or those plastic scissors that can't cut skin. But there are other times when the two jobs seem exactly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids, Lies and Publicists | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

...criminal gang; the Mystery Girls, a crime-fighting duo; and Echo, the little girl with the mysterious eye-patch. They all swirl around this mystery man who turns out to be Michael Chang. Born in a secret compound, able to control men's minds, he can shed his skin like a suit. Is he a monster or savior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In It's Grip | 4/2/2002 | See Source »

...that have just left, and now they have jobs, but it never occurred to me. I was always fascinated not only by the lifestyle or the performing, but the feeling of living in the circus and being surrounded by any variety of people. I'm not only talking about skin color or religion, but even a midget or a giant, or whatever you are. In the circus, it sounds clich? but it's true, they are equal. You take a person for who he really is inside, and not because he is 35 inches or 7 feet tall. The values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: David Larible | 3/29/2002 | See Source »

...Year, which was celebrated last week. Nasrin Qasim Zai, who works in Kabul University's student registry says many of her friends are waiting for other women to lead the way. She pulls her light blue-colored burka back to reveal dark lipstick, gold earrings and faux leopard skin high heels. "Women will discard the burka only gradually as the security improves," she says, as she waits with friends for the bus home after work. "The important difference now is that we have a choice. Nothing's forcing us." Not Taliban dogma, or Western expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What do Afghan Women Want? | 3/29/2002 | See Source »

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