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...even if lowered to the bare cost of their production, the price of AIDS drugs would remain too expensive for impoverished countries to afford...
...Friday was Republic Day, India's main national holiday, and in the capital of New Delhi, the traditionally dazzling parade was held with camel corps, bagpipers and helicopters showering marigold petals onto assembled dignitaries?while Gujaratis were trying to dig out their friends and neighbors with bare hands. For most of that day, rescue attempts were undertaken entirely by survivors and volunteers. By nightfall, desperation was setting in: where were the relief workers, the rescue equipment, the cranes so essential to lifting the rubble and sifting for survivors? Complained Vinod Trivedi, 52, an insurance worker in Ahmedabad: "Not even...
...Elsewhere, designers aimed for something new and didn?t quite succeed. Christian Lacroix reached into his remnant bag and threw out a confounding array of colors, textures and patterns. Emanuel Ungaro reached into his and came out with the parade of the seven veils. The bare-midriff-and-veil-thing may not be for everyone, but hopefully for Ungaro?s bottom line, the perfume he advertised before the show...
...which "feeling"--other than the feelings of boredom and of nagging guilt at being bored--was, if not quite eradicated, at least not paramount? Wouldn't that be more honest? An art that, like Euclid in Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem, proposed to look "on Beauty bare"--in the utterly plebeian form of stacked cinder blocks, logs of Styrofoam on the gallery floor, industrial scrap, identical stripes without end or even just arrays of numbered cells on sheets of paper. Wouldn't this surpass the "bourgeois" desire for art as rare commodity and democratize the whole artmaking process (since...
Women of my generation have to thank Britney Spears for at least one fashion coup: she has given the country amnesia about how we dressed as kids. Blinded by her bare midriff, we have apparently forgotten about our own fashion choices--the hot pants, micro-minis, platform shoes, crop tops, tank tops and hip huggers so tight we had to lie down to get them zipped...