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...bombs. The media's reaction was disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident. Greece has done more than enough to safeguard the success of the Games. Athens is quite a safe place?no need to panic. Most of my compatriots have canceled going away on their usual August holidays in order to attend the Olympic Games. Come to Athens and watch the athletic contests, expose yourself to Hellenic civilization and take a vacation in the beautiful Greek Islands. Christos Alexopoulos Athens...
Born in Amsterdam, Blumenfeld spent his early childhood in France and moved to New York with his family in August 1941. He is the son of Erwin Blumenfeld, an internationally renowned and heavily influential photographer who specialized in fashion imagery, especially female nudes. Major magazines on both sides of the Atlantic used his work for cover photos and spreads, and the younger Blumenfeld recently published a collection of his father’s prints, The Naked and the Veiled: The Photographic Nudes of Erwin Blumenfeld...
...being booed and heckled at conferences. In a country where adults can have liposuction, facial cosmetic surgery and penis and breast enlargements, he says, health authorities portray whole-body scanning as "some nefarious activity undertaken by grubby business people . . . charlatans who advertise." The facts, Freilich says, are that since August '02 he's analyzed the scans of more than 5,000 people. One in 20 had abnormalities needing "immediate follow-up," including more than 100 cancers. He could make more money in a standard radiography practice, he adds, "but it so happens I've become addicted to this...
...that day was a hero," Bradley later wrote, remembering the carpet of corpses, men burned alive or blown apart or drowned. All told, by the end of the first day, at least 150,000 men had landed by sea and air, and there were 10,000 casualties. But by August the Allies were speeding toward Paris on their way to victory. The German surrender came 11 months later...
...stars saddling their children with quirky monikers. Geena Davis has just given birth to twin boys Kian and Kaiis, Helen Hunt bore girl MaKena lei Gordon, Rachel Griffiths christened a son Banjo Patrick, Jason Lee had boy Pilot Inspektor, and Cedric the Entertainer welcomed daughter Lucky Rose. And the august-sounding Roman appears to be the new Jack--Cate Blanchett and Debra Messing chose it for their sons this year. How will Mary-Louise Parker's son ever be able to hold his head up at celebrity day care? He got saddled with William...