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...happy to whip up specially tailored creations. Here are three addresses certain to please any style hound hungering for something unique. ENLEVER SES VETEMENTS: Despite its name (take off their clothes in French), this menswear shop, tel: (66-2) 640 8088, is all about putting on a daily armor that wouldn't look out of place in a style capital like London or New York City. In fact, artist turned designer Suparerk Bhasaputra is a New York transplant. Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here...
...Returning to the Green Zone on Thursday, this time entering through checkpoints along the 14th of July Bridge, I found the sergeant in charge of the crossing in no laughing mood as he stood, tense, in the blazing heat wearing full body armor, overseeing the movement of people across a bridge that has drawn sniper fire in recent weeks. He checked my badge and my passport and asked to see another form of identification. I gave him my Washington, D.C., drivers license, which he said he needed to keep at the checkpoint while I was inside. I was assured, however...
...stories about the risks American soldiers were taking, about the kinds of injuries they were suffering and the new therapies the Army medical corps had developed to cope with them. Indeed, one of the differences about the Iraq conflict is that because of advances in battlefield medicine and body armor, a much greater ratio of the wounded are surviving in this war than in previous conflicts. Those are the soldiers we have written about again and again and the soldiers whom Blood Brothers is dedicated...
...WHAT IT HAS ACTUALLY DONE Has run graphic and misleading television ads against Republican Senators George Allen and Rick Santorum, funded with regulated contributions to VoteVets' political-action committee, suggesting their votes against a Democratic funding measure deprived U.S. troops of modern body armor. In fact, the Government Accountability Office found that a lack of money didn't cause the armor shortfall in 2003. Rather, the military's suppliers could not keep up with the sudden surge in demand for the armor...
...produced just a handful of buildings--he was the kind of man who could imagine that a castle keep, complete with a few stray crenellations and slit windows that any medieval archer would appreciate, was just the thing for an art museum. You can't really add to an armor-plated canister like the one he provided in Denver. So Libeskind's addition is a freestanding structure. It connects to the Ponti with a glass bridge, a gray-toned exterior and a willingness to think differently but with happier results...