I remember the first time I visited “The Body Shop.” It was a brand new store in Georgetown and a brand new chain, too. I was in college, and I was enchanted by all the wonderful sounding lotions and conditioners. For years I only used this banana shampoo that made my hair feel silky and…

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Should any of us be surprised that the MTV Video Music Awards show was an utter disaster? What do you expect from the network with enough gall to green light a bisexual dating show featuring a relative nobody? But while it is easy for us to shine the light on the negative moments of the…

Officials at Nepal’s state-run airlines are certainly “thinking outside the box” when it comes to battling the plague of problems—late flights, older planes—affecting the airline industry. Or maybe we should say, thinking outside the pen. Reuters reports that Nepal Airlines “sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with…

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