Oct 6th, 2008 · A teenage student in Nevada was willing to go to jail for his beliefs. His belief was his right to wear a bandana. It violated the dress code at Churchill County High School. When he refused to give it up, he was arrested. And a restaurant in Maine also had a dress code problem. Officials forced the Black Frog Restaurant to stop a promotion. It offered a free sandwich to anybody who went skinny dipping in a nearby lake.
Jul 4th, 2007 · Summertime is when many major magazines publish their swim suit editions, influencing perceptions of beauty among scores of women readers. Editors from three ethnic magazines -- East West, Essence and Latina -- discuss why "skinny" might be fading as an industry standard.
Mar 28th, 2007 · Media shorthand has reduced the music of the '80s to a set of telltale signifiers: big hair, skinny ties, and so on. But a few surviving documents, among them Richard Barone's fantastic Cool Blue Halo, demonstrate that the era was fruitful for classic pop.
Feb 1st, 2007 · The man many consider to be the best pool player in the world, Efren "Bata" Reyes, is a skinny, almost toothless, 52-year-old Filipino with a slight paunch, an infectious grin and a legion of fans both at home and abroad.
Dec 21st, 2006 · The Italian government is working with Italy's fashion industry to ban super-skinny models. The new rules, which are intended to discourage eating disorders, will require models to provide a certificate of good health before they may work the runway.
Sep 19th, 2006 · The fashion world is in an uproar over Spain's decision to ban overly thin models from Madrid's premiere fashion show, which began this week. Physicians are checking the body mass index of participants, and have already rejected one-third of those who modeled at last year's event.
Jul 6th, 2006 · A powerful Chicago alderman has proposed that the city become the first in the United States to ban the use of trans fats in restaurants. Trans fats are considered the most unhealthy of all cooking oils. Michele Norris gets the skinny on trans fats from Kim Severson, a New York Times reporter and author of The Trans Fats Solution: Cooking and Shopping to Eliminate the Deadliest Fat from Your Diet.
Mar 28th, 2006 · Rodrigues island's "cafe marron" plant has been presumed extinct for scores of years. Then, one day, a little boy told his teacher that the plant lived, near his house. Suddenly, an obscure, skinny little bush that nobody had noticed became an international treasure and the focus of a 20-year effort to preserve it.