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This is not a nostalgia movement. While plenty of women still cut clothes from Simplicity patterns, there is a distinctly hip subset of fashionable crafters who are more interested in sewing as an expression of individuality than as a tradition. "This isn't your grandmother's craft," observes Bostonian Leah Kramer, 30, who likes to take old boxy rock-concert T shirts and transform them into baby-doll fashion statements. "One way to express your creativity is your clothing. If you make a cool dress out of some sheets that you bought at a thrift store, that says...
...It’s an attempt to let faculty members express their views directly and increase communication,” he said...
...writing to express our loss of confidence in the senior administration of this university following yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They repeatedly assured us that they had now understood the faculty’s unhappiness with their overbearing style and their failure to have a meaningful dialogue, and would work hard at changing things. Yet this new resolution failed at the first hurdle. In the last 15 minutes of the scheduled faculty meeting we were presented with a proposed way out of the current impasse. To the best of our knowledge...
...more than 13 months after landing, both Mars cars are still going strong. They've taken pictures of astonishing clarity, complementing the equally clear but long-distance images from both the Mars Global Surveyor and the European Mars Express orbiter. Just last week news leaked that Express had found what may be huge slabs of ice from a frozen sea buried under a thick layer of dust...
...colonized it for 50 years before surrendering it to Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1945. Now the former colonial master is effectively promising to watch-guard its former subjects and their tense relationship with mainland China. If Taiwanese were skeptical or ambivalent, they didn't express it. "The joint declaration is a check on China," says Lai Hsin-yuan, a former adviser to Taiwan's National Security Council. Says Koh Se-kai, Taiwan's de facto ambassador in Tokyo: "We are very happy...