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...ranch houses. In the past decade, studies have shown that up to 38% of local children have had high levels of lead in their blood--an exposure that can cause permanent neurological damage and learning disabilities. "Our kids hit a brick wall," says Kim Pace, principal of the Picher-Cardin Elementary School. "Their eyes skip and jump. It takes them 100 repetitions to learn a sound...
Breet-a-nee, she iz not 'ere. Ze show, eet aas been can-sealed." This late-breaking news is delivered by a French cabbie idling in his taxi at the entrance of a Paris club called Espace Cardin. Inside, on this drizzly October evening, the world's most obsessed-about pop star is supposed to be taping a French TV special in front of a crowd of adoring, gyrating Parisian partygoers. But outside, the scene now is much more grim, with workmen lugging huge amplifiers and other stage equipment onto waiting trucks while clusters of fans linger under umbrellas looking...
...THOROUGHLY MOD MADEMOISELLES Chanel detested miniskirts. She found the knees to be the most unattractive part of a woman's body and insisted that all skirts fall just below. Of course, in 1966, while Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne dominate the fashion headlines, Chanel can't stop guests at her haute couture show at the rue Cambon salon in Paris from displaying lots of leg. (The only woman pictured who isn't holding up the house's tweed tradition is Barbra Streisand, far left...
...tiny Swiss village of Törbel by Maurer and a local cobbler, the collection is sold to the "trendy, techno generation" in Europe and Japan, Maurer says. Chalk up another victory for the Swiss. - Helena Bachmann/Geneva SEEN ON THE CHARITY CIRCUIT Giorgio Armani, the Next Pierre Cardin? In becoming a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations last month, Giorgio Armani is not only following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali and Michael Douglas - he's also following in the path of Pierre Cardin, who became a U.N. Ambassador back in 1991. It's not the only...
...First to bat is pension plans, with a bill sponsored by Reps. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland) set to hit the House floor Thursday. It's no accident that this issue is getting first crack at re-regulation; any issue involving retirees also involves lots of voting seniors. But it's also no cinch that much good will get done...