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...Positive” campaign to the incredibly successful “Live Strong” campaign of recent years, particularly since both are meant to be fund-raising tools. True, the T-shirt troupe does not enjoy the benefits of Lance Armstrong-scale publicity, which brought the bracelets instant notice. But what really distinguishes the movements from each other is that Live Strong referred to a mantra—although it was a means of raising awareness and funds for cancer research, the bracelets stated “Live Strong” as opposed to something like...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Positively Puzzling | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...President General Pervez Musharraf. One by one they had been arrested and detained - some thrown in jail, others kept under house arrest. They were given 30-day detention orders and arrested for breach of public safety ordinances, though they had done nothing yet. "Has Mush gone Mad?" asked one instant message. "Let them do their worst," said another. "We will carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Sign of Weakness | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...Among the prime directors of Italian Westerns (most of them shot in Spain, by the way) was Sergio Corbucci, who vaulted to prominence with the 1966 Django. It was The image of star Franco Nero coming into town not on horseback but on foot, dragging a coffin, was an instant sensation that cued more than 50 Django films, all unrelated to the original. Its theme song, by composer Luis Bacalov, remains one of those melodies that worms its way into a listener's brain and, as I can testify, can't be extracted for weeks. The Corbucci film also inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wild West's Long and Winding Road | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...define it. And the world is primed for what Neiman Marcus Stores president and ceo Karen Katz calls "high luxury": the number of households worth more than $5 million is greater than ever before, and the consumer has an increased appetite for all things luxe, thanks to the instant mass exposure of today's runways and red carpets...

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

...August, a wisp of flame suddenly appeared in the Arctic twilight over the Barents Sea, bathing the low clouds over the Norwegian port of Hammerfest in a spectral orange glow. With a tremendous roar, the flame bloomed over the windswept ocean and craggy gray rocks, competing for an instant with the Arctic summer's never-setting sun. The first flare-off of natural gas from the Snohvit (Snow White in Norwegian) gas field, some 90 miles (145 km) offshore, was a beacon of promise: After 25 years of false starts, planning and construction, the first Arctic industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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