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...Craft Studios in Somerville, Mass., which opened in January 2005. "They're really sick of not being able to find clothes they like that fit them the way they like," she says. What's more, making your own clothes now has a special kind of cachet, particularly among image-conscious teenagers. "When people say, 'Where did you get that?' it's like, 'Oh, I made it,' and people think that's really cool," says Taylor Ostertag, 14, who stitched a pair of pajama bottoms in her high school sewing club in Oswego, Ill., using a light green flannel with...
...Tempe, close to Sydney's airport, for a clean-up of the Cooks River and some nearby parks; they listened to lectures about pollution, river quality and storm water, played games and painted a colorful canvas mural. The groups didn't mingle much at first; a few self-conscious attempts to break the ice came unstuck. Four Holy Spirit boys sulked under a tree, offended that some Muslim girls had laughed at their Asian names. Some Malek Fahd girls were embarrassed by the physical intimacy between Christian boys and girls. In their hijabs and long-sleeved shirts, the Muslim girls...
...real way, implicated in their achievement and their disgrace. So you'd think this explosion of public ugliness might spur some kind of national soul searching. Did we somehow encourage their bigotry, by ignoring softer forms of it in our pop culture? Did they think on some level, conscious or not, that they spoke for us? Were they right...
RETIRED. Ian Thorpe, 24, fashion-conscious, philanthropic Australian freestyle swimmer who dominated the 400-m race, winning nine Olympic medals--five of them gold--as well as a record 11 world titles; in an announcement to a stunned press corps in Sydney. Nicknamed the Thorpedo, he explained that, though still at the top of his game, he had met his swimming goals and wanted to begin the rest of his life. "You can swim lap after lap, staring at a black line, and all of a sudden you look up and see what's around," he said. "That's what...
RETIRED. Ian Thorpe, 24, fashion-conscious, philanthropic Australian freestyle swimmer who dominated the 400-m race, winning nine Olympic medals-five of them gold-as well as a record 11 world titles; in an announcement to a stunned press corps in Sydney. Nicknamed the Thorpedo, he explained that, though still at the top of his game, he had met his swimming goals and wanted to begin the rest of his life. "You can swim lap after lap, staring at a black line, and all of a sudden you look up and see what's around," he said. "That's what...