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...some independence-minded Greenlanders, that's just fine. The thought of big nations finding yet another vested interest in their landscape isn't universally thrilling in Greenland, which has been a strategic military outpost for the U.S. and Denmark since the Cold War. Inuit hunters were displaced when the American military set up camp at the Thule Air Base on the island's northwest shore in the 1950s, and Inuit hunters were the first to be exposed when a B-52 carrying hydrogen bombs crashed near the base in 1968. "We are fragile, both in terms of the climate crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenland to World: "Keep Out!" | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...always about the most expensive of the most expensive, but about what we can offer the customer that is not readily available," says Hall, who before overseeing the selling, marketing, merchandising and planning strategies of all 39 stores, as she does now, worked in everything from sportswear, fine apparel, dresses and handbags to shoes and beauty. "I grew up at Neiman Marcus," says Hall, who was raised in New Jersey, admittedly fashion obsessed. She studied merchandising in New York City and soon became a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's, no doubt looking as chic as she does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magical Thinkers | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...free school, Scuola della Pelletteria Bottega Veneta, to train future employees. From perfectly blended stripes on a handbag to shoes, bomber jackets and even a floor lamp seamlessly encased in leather, intrecciato shows up in every category of the Bottega Veneta brand. Even the house's 18 karat-gold fine jewelry is painstakingly woven by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's in a Weave? | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...giant rough aquamarines in her hands. "I would wear it because I like the fact that there is so much light in these stones and that somehow they are not pure, but maybe it's not for everyone." Indeed, after 27 years in business designing her namesake collection of fine jewelry for Tiffany & Co., Paloma Picasso, 58, the daughter of Pablo Picasso, has finally seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artistic License | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...Rhimes should have just gone the CSI route and titled this spin-off Grey's Anatomy: Los Angeles. Addison Forbes Montgomery (Kate Walsh) hooks up with a group of doctors whose personal entanglements, snappy dialogue and eccentric medical-ethics dilemmas add up to Grey's in a warmer climate. Fine if that's all you need, but if you're sick of TV clones, Practice is not the cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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