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According to Sharp, if "you can get rid of that little bit of scoop in the small of the back, you won't have nearly the amount of crashing of water into the top of the buttocks." So, by adding a bonded layer of elastic fabric to the inside of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Swimsuits: Winning Medals Too | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOHO DANCE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Miro, in Spanish, means ''he saw'' -- an absurdly good name for a painter. Joan Miro died 10 years ago, and 1993 marks the centenary of his birth. It has been celebrated by a number of exhibitions in Spain, where the centerpiece was a large retrospective in Barcelona. This week an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

To Ronald Reagan, the mutual suicide pact that has precariously preserved the nuclear peace for the past quarter-century is unacceptable, indeed immoral. Why not, he asked in his famous Star Wars speech, switch from a policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) to one of mutual assured survival by creating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGIC QUESTIONS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

An old Pentagon adage holds that while figures don't lie, liars can figure. That's apt when it comes to measuring the progress of the Iraqi security forces. The GAO cites data showing that only 10% of Iraqi army battalions have reached full operational readiness. In a Pentagon response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Through the Looking Glass(es) | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

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