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Sadly, there are also negative ramifications for the United States, as the new media can immortalize our society’s worst transgressions. Like the Abu Ghraib photos, the horror depicted in this media will live on well past the fleeting moment in the collective conscious. The mainstream media needs fresh material daily, burdened by the expectation to cover current events. But with these new technologies, time peg is an anachronism, and news, especially bad news, is no longer in the headlines on Monday and forgotten by Friday...
...incestuous, trend-conscious world of international art collectors and the hot money of the roughly 500 new millionaires that China's boom has thrown up come together, it could push prices for Chinese art to even more dizzying levels. "You are already seeing works that sold for a few thousand dollars being bought for $50,000, $60,000, $70,000," says artist and Beijing gallery director Zhao Gang. "And right now there's no end in sight." He cites the case of Zeng Fanzhi, until recently a relatively unknown artist. "Two years ago, I was selling his work...
...realized this summer that the hijab is omnipresent in many peoples’ lives, whether they like it or not.It’s ironic—though the justification for the hijab is to make women less preoccupied with their looks, I have never been more conscious about my appearance than I was in Egypt. Because I am of Arab descent, foreign eyes gazed more keenly at me—at how much skin I showed and how much makeup I wore—than they did at my white friends, although their U.S. passports were no bluer than...
...ultra-stylish Wallpaper City Guides brazenly skip the well-trod tourist spots to instead focus on what interests the authors: iconic architecture, hot shopping venues, glamorous hotels and the hippest clubs and restaurants in 20 design-conscious cities. The Paris guide won't help you locate the Eiffel Tower, but it will show you how to find a dozen of Le Corbusier's architectural gems...
...lecturer hobble him, especially on defense and military history. But there is a new side to the man. He's always been avuncular (which weakened him as a leader in some eyes). Now he's taking that image a step further by appearing more intimate and less self-conscious about addressing what politicians usually regard as softer issues. He's talking freely about family life, for example, about loneliness, stress, uncertainty and love. Beazley is having a Latham moment. One of the things Labor didn't scrub along with Latham is a determination to grapple with slippery "psych" terms like...