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...household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniaków had a brain wave: Why not use their ancient skills to make ... erotic underwear? The idea quickly caught on, and German sex shops have become buyers of their flimsy, colorful crochet lace thongs...
...amid the lawlessness, there is evident progress. In the nearby Kurdish village of Tapasaus, life has changed immeasurably since electricity was delivered for the first time two months ago. The mayor invited U.S. troops to a party celebrating the advent of power, and villagers are lining up to buy televisions. (A man confides that he wants to divorce his wife because he has fallen in love with a singer on TV.) Elsewhere in the north, electrical power is still intermittent, and many Iraqis blame the Coalition Provisional Authority. It's perhaps a hopeful sign that some Iraqis view this...
Since the advent of the internet, sociologists and anthropologists have been scrambling to make sense of the social phenomenon. The academics, though, are often behind the times, writing about a fad a year after it’s passe. For instance, researchers of online social networking still study the chat room craze, even though many people exited chat rooms for good in the mid 90?...
Despite the advent of Segways, Zipcars and other technologically complex forms of short-distance transportation, Richard C. Cozzens ’07 remains loyal to a classic, time-tested vehicle: the unicycle. Though he admits that the two-wheel bicycle is a bit more practical, Cozzens prefers his lime-green unicycle to more common modes of transportation because, well—it’s a unicycle...
...year hit European screens. Although co-distribution deals between countries are sprouting up everywhere - Italy's state film department is in talks with Britain and France about setting up a reciprocal accord - Europe still has no organized distribution network. Cinema may have been invented in Europe, but since the advent of talking pictures, Hollywood has reigned supreme. That global domination of the $52 billion cinema industry now relies on a vicious economic cycle: as the cost of filmmaking rises, studios balance the checkbook by casting their nets wider, showing their films in more countries to more paying customers; movies become...