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...Stranger yet, Uncle Milton's Force Trainer wasn't the only levitational gadget at this year's American International Toy Fair, the four-day trade show that brings a gazillion manufacturers and retailers together every February in New York City. Also on display was Mattel's new Mindflex, which has players move a tiny foam ball through a mini-obstacle course with their thoughts. Or, more precisely, with their brain waves. (See the best toys from the 2008 American International Toy Fair...
...picture of a genial Tom Cruise hangs above the door to the King beauty parlor in downtown Basra. For more than a decade, Sameer Abdalhadi has been snipping and shaving in the cramped salon with its display case of Dr. James Freckle and Acne Soap and Muscular Man perfume. On this February afternoon, he gives street vendor Mustafa Abdalsada a modish haircut and shaves his beard, leaving just a hint of designer stubble. Local men cultivate beards or luxuriant mustaches of the kind that make even despots look avuncular, but Abdalhadi encourages his clients to try something new. The barber...
...Mashoor's Boasting a delectable outdoor display of typical Indian sweets, Mashoor's, tel: (66-2) 635 2211, is run by Dan Bahadu, who calls himself Nepali though raised in Burma. The treat here is the laphet thoke, or Burmese tea-leaf salad, a wonderfully pungent mélange of pickled leaves, fried yellow dal, chilies and tomatoes. (See pictures of high-tea in Malaysia...
...eastern Mediterranean. Some of the objects are simply stunning - such as a curved ivory wand from Mesopotamia, whose delicately chiseled engravings, still intact after 4,000 years, were meant to ward off evil spirits from harming an infant. But there's a larger magic at work: seen through the display's myriad vessels, statues, seals and pendants, the cultures of antiquity take shape in a world system threaded together by commerce and collaboration. Cretan fish motifs adorn the frescoes from a Syrian nobleman's house hundreds of miles away from the sea. Recovered relics from the 20-ton cargo...
...blustery January afternoon, I was one of the last people to get a peek inside the three-story apartment on Rue de Babylone where Saint Laurent lived from 1972 until his death. Stepping into the Grand Salon, visitors are met with a mind-bogglingly eclectic display of art that somehow achieves a visual harmony. An imposing Fernand Léger dominates the far wall with a Matisse nude tucked away nearby; on the other side of the broad rectangular room, where Renaissance objects of bronze and silver intermingle with sumptuous art-deco furniture, an elaborate cubist Picasso masterpiece - Instruments...