All of you weave and wig lovers out there are more than welcome to DIY your dye job at home—as long as you promise to follow the instructions perfectly, and don’t cut any corners. But, if all of this seems totally overwhelming, I definitely recommend heading to a colorist.

NEW ULM — Sixteen people participating in the New Ulm Area Christmas Bird Count reported seeing 37 species of …

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this holiday lineup is undoubtedly one of the brand’s best collections to date. It’s so dreamy and beautifully packaged, and the fact that almost everything comes available as a single item, part of a small bundle, or a larger vault set means you can find an option to suit everyone on your holiday shopping list. Or, you know, you could drop $290 in a major treat-yourself moment and buy the whole collection for yourself. I totally wouldn’t judge you; in fact, I’d really envy you. The This Is Not A Dream Holiday Collection is live on the brand’s site now, so make your dream a reality and get shopping.

Across an alleyway, Shahbaz Ansari, 17, works part time repairing truck tires at his father’s roadside stall. He is in his final year of high school. After graduation, he imagines a job inside an air-conditioned office.

Together, these elements indicate a very strong patterning in the S-HC8 system, reaching almost a perfectly stabilized and strongly oriented water wire. The chiral compatibility of the S-HC8 system with the L-type lipids probably better stabilizes the respective I-quartet channel that adopts a conformation, where water molecules are more strongly associated than in bulk water. The R-HC8 system maintains a strong dipolar orientation with fine-tuned interactions along the water wire, comparable energetics with respect to bulk water, and hence an increased mobility along a structured water path. The HC8 channels are slightly destabilized compared with bulk water and do not form stable wire arrangements in the unsupported lipid bilayers.

"For everybody who thinks it’s a wonderful tribute to loved ones, there are others who don’t want to picnic where people are scattering ashes."

The Strasbourg-based court fined Lithuania €130,000 and Romania €100,000 over the treatment of the two men, who are still being held in Guantánamo Bay as suspected senior al-Qaeda operatives. It follows a similar ruling from the ECHR against Poland in 2014 over the same two men. 

Khandekar was also part of the team behind the famous restoration of the Rothko murals commissioned by Harvard in 1962. Installed in the Holyoke Center, a modernist tower, the paintings were subjected to an unfiltered flow of light and the kind of casual abuse inflicted by chair backs and college catering until 1979, when conservators, curators, and university administrators, recognizing the extent of the damage, took them down. The murals were next exhibited in 1988, and Harvard received a barrage of criticism for their neglect. Some conservators have blamed the paintings’ discoloration on Rothko’s use of rabbit-skin glue as a binder; others, on his choice of Lithol Red, a low-cost powder pigment. Khandekar, who oversaw the research on the Harvard murals, suspects that their extreme fading was due to Rothko’s mixing of a calcium-salt red with synthetic ultramarine to make the purplish indigo that he so loved in his saturnine years.

Survivors include his wife, Carol Chappell Cochran of Rockmart; daughter and son-in-law, Katie and Thomas Humphrey of Valdosta; father, Robert Lee Cochran Sr. of Rome; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Diane and Steve Dempsey and Denise and Danny Brooks all of Rome; and two grandchildren, Camden Humphrey and Isabella Humphrey.

TODAY is Christmas Day! Hurray!! On this day, which is a traditional public holiday in Nigeria, billions of people are c…

I have long wondered why people put themselves in such travel trauma on holidays, which are, after all, merely dates declared by the authorities. Why do so many people spend half or more of their “holiday weekends’’ traveling on packed roads or in trains, planes and buses that recall Japanese subways at rush hour? And, of course, in more northern climes, the weather from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day throws more uncertainty and sometimes chaos into the mix.  

In her next set of experiments, Dharmarwardana glued tiny stainless steel balls to the anchored crystals to see how much weight the crystal cantilevers could lift as they were heated. Because the crystals are brittle, she expected them to break under the load.