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...DIED. FRED L. WHIPPLE, 97, pioneering astronomer who was the first to accurately describe comets as masses of rock and ice; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Whipple's 1950 "dirty snowball" theory was hotly disputed by scientists who believed that comets consisted of dust or gases, but photographs of Halley's comet taken in 1986 proved him right. He also designed the "Whipple shield," a device still used today to protect spacecraft from meteors...
WEARABLE Republica Trading Co. brings out a Che sweater in time for fall--a cashmere-wool blend that will retail for $198 at hip boutiques such as Fred Segal...
...DIED. FRED LARUE, 75, mysterious aide to President Richard Nixon and key figure in the cover-up of the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters; in Biloxi, Miss. The bagman, who lacked title, salary or mention in the White House directory, served 136 days in jail for paying more than $300,000 to Watergate conspirators and supervising the shredding of documents and financial records related to the scandal...
Birth of a Nation imagines what might happen if the mostly African-American residents of East St. Louis, Ill., fed up with an electoral process that isn't working for them, seceded from the union and declared their city a sovereign state. Fred Fredericks, the mayor turned President of the newly named Blackland, must balance the country's utopian initiatives (adopting hitherto suppressed alternative-fuel technologies) with the difficulties of life in a rogue nation (where federal checks no longer come in). The satire is omnivorous, poking fun at the Bush Administration and Louis Farrakhan...
...When Akanemaru despairs of finding the Phoenix he sits at the bottom of tall, full-length panels that make him seem tiny. But much of this will go unnoticed the first time through. Your eye dances through the pages like a supple partner to Fred Astaire's lead...