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Women have always dressed to camouflage figure flaws-real or imagined-but this season a spate of clothing options, including new varieties of jeans, panty hose and even shoes, has arrived promising to fix one of the most persistent concerns: cellulite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch: Cloaking Cellulite | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...Nikorn isn't expecting his campaign to win easy victories. The causes of accidents are so varied?poor roadway design, unsafe vehicles, and human error among them. There are no quick-fix solutions. Yordphol Tanaboriboon, a transportation-engineering professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, says one of the few generalizations that can be made is that the high proportion of motorcycles on Thailand's roads (of the country's 26 million registered vehicles, 12 million are two-wheelers; according to Nikorn, there are another 6 million unregistered motorcycles) is linked to a higher death rate. As many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Streets | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...legal actions. Companies like Kate Spade, Chanel and Coach, whose purses are also widely copied, are members of several consortiums of luxury-goods manufacturers that facilitate civil and criminal seizures of counterfeit goods. "Every company affected by [counterfeiting] spends an inordinate amount of money trying to fix it," says Barbara Kolsun, general counsel at Kate Spade. La Chemise Lacoste, whose alligator-logo shirts are knocked off and sold around the world, reportedly budgets some $4.2 million annually to battle counterfeiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purse-Party Blues | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...VERDICT ON 9/11 A stark report on what went wrong and how to fix it. But will the reforms happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complete List of Articles | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...sister's involvement muddies the waters even further--because they don't get along and she's controlling the information he receives. The good news is that he can fix the latter problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Francine | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

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