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...staple of the biggest look for the back-to-school season: preppy. For the past three years, teenagers across the country have tested the limits of propriety--and school dress codes--with girls in ultra-low-rise jeans (often paired with a peekaboo G-string) and itty-bitty graphic Ts. Boys have opted for baggy denim, athletic jerseys and hooded sweatshirts. But the de facto uniform is finally changing. Teens describe their new look as "simple" or "clean" rather than preppy. Whatever name you give the trend, students are incorporating tweeds, tartans and button-downs into their back-to-school...
LIVING: The sequel to a graphic novel about life in Iran; restaurants that help with portion control...
Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian expatriate, was embraced by the comic-book world when her graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood was published in English last year. Her autobiographical tale of a restless girlhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran, told in stark black and white, drew comparisons to Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus. This month Satrapi is back with her next installment, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Part one found Satrapi and her family facing and surviving war, revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several loved ones. Part two begins with Satrapi...
Satrapi, 34, is now a leader of a new revolution--a graphic-novel rebellion in which personal tales can be told in comic form. "I absolutely think that it is time for the comic to evolve," she says. But her truth telling has its consequences. She has not returned to her homeland since the publication of her first book, instead making her home in Paris. "Not because I have been exactly threatened," she says, "but because people who are telling the same truths in my country are jailed. Or worse...
...travel monograph reveals numerous mistakes by State Department and INS officials that made it easier for the hijackers to repeatedly gain access to the U.S. It also includes a chilling appendix with graphic reproductions of available travel documents for the hijackers - including Jarrah?s partly burned U.S. visa, recovered from the Pennsylvania field where he perished in the crash of United Flight...