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...ANGELES In synch with the West Coast's laid-back lifestyle, Paul Smith's English-dandy look, including his pastel-striped shirts, has become the latest status symbol at Neiman Marcus, where the shirts sell...
...thing always has a short-term effect on the polls." But outside the inner circle, others were less sanguine. A longtime ally in a battleground state said the Bush team was reading its own press releases and was out of touch with the country. Another, on the West Coast, put it this way: "He doesn't have a message. It's the same old rhetoric of two years ago. They are acting like they deserve re-election...
What do leftist linguist NOAM CHOMSKY and Left Coast lovely DREW BARRYMORE have in common? (Hint: it's not tattoos.) Both cultural notables took home a prize from the United Nations last week. After receiving an award from the U.N.'s Society of Writers and Artists, Chomsky spoke on U.S. imperialism and Iraq. When Barrymore was named the first "Friend of the U.N." by Artists for the U.N. (yes, two artists' groups--this is the U.N.), she said, "To be philanthropic is weirdly not as easy as you want it to be." Unlike, say, fighting bad guys while in high...
...surfaced eight years ago, when a photographer contacted Mooney to tell him of terrible tumors he had documented in devils in Tasmania?s northeast. Then, in 1999, one of the world?s few devil experts, zoologist Menna Jones, reported similar tumors among animals she was studying on the east coast. But it wasn?t until late last year that a statewide snapshot survey revealed the full extent of the epidemic. Despite the Tasmanian devil?s iconic status and its key ecological role as a super-efficient scourer of the bush, requests for a program to monitor the species have been...
...produced in similarly deplorable conditions in West Africa and Central America. The International Labor Organization and the U.S. government have both recognized the existence of the use of child trafficking and forced labor—essentially child slavery—in cocoa production in the Ivory Coast. The State Department has reported that child slaves in West Africa number in the thousands. Many work 12-hour days, and physical beatings are common...