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...officers and no headquarters, but more than 7000 people have signed up for the chat room - two-thirds of them in the past month. The one-year project has turned into a long-term phenomenon, with chapters across the country from Oregon to Maine. Compacters are posting from Brazil to Britain, while television stations from China and Poland have broadcast reports on the movement. "My impulse buying urges have subsided," says Rachel Kesel, 26, one of the founders. "I've tried to lighten my impact on the planet...
Curves, that is. The model's figure keeps shrinking to new lows, so ahead of Milan's Fashion Week next month, Italy banned from its runways any body mass index under 18.5. Spain imposed similar restrictions, and Brazil--where a model died from anorexia--is also considering a ban. Here, a look at the shifting shape of the female fashion mannequin...
...more hours of standing in the cold in one of those pens. So the pre-show comprises live and taped music acts and, at the top of each hour from 7 p.m. on, a countdown to zero second and a feed from whatever region (London, England; Ponta Verde, Brazil) is celebrating its midnight moment. That's when Treb's troops would fling into action, unfurling, say, the Mylar strips that blanketed the sky with what looked like glitter done by ILM. Some freelancers, stationed in the few Times Square high-rises with openable windows, unfurled toilet-paper streamers...
...that occurred in the late ?90s and continues, especially among what are called the anti-globalization protesters. If you look at the 1999 Seattle protests, there was a tremendous amount of costuming, the famous "turtle suits" worn by the environmentalists, as well as music. I went a rally in Brazil in 2004. It was fascinating - people came with their drums, and some people had face paint on, like they might at a soccer game. People were dancing in the streets...
...case, but who or where depends on the federal judge who is handling the case and the country's powerful military. The judge is now reviewing evidence and must decide whether military personnel, if they are involved, should face a civilian or armed forces tribunal. The military, which runs Brazil's air traffic control system, is not happy about its personnel being implicated. Military officers refused to hand over black box transcripts to police, delaying the inquiry and exacerbating the rivalry between the two bodies...