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Using her detective skills, Tess discovers the stolen item is a multi-geared rotor encoder, a “cryptographic device that dates to the sixteenth century,” according to Khoury...
...Nagin reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic device with a tiny speaker on one side. "I just found something they're selling for $8.95," the New Orleans mayor told a crowd of supporters. "It's called the Mayor in Your Pocket." He gave the novelty item a couple of squeezes and out came tinny-sounding snippets of vintage post-Katrina Naginese: "You've got to be kidding me! This is a national disaster!" The mayor basked in howls of laughter as the toy squawked. "They're making money off me," he said...
...where several hundred have shut down. But the government is introducing a rigorous new accounting system that for the first time details the cost of every service. Perhaps most significantly, the workings of the national budget have just been revamped; a new law requires government ministries to justify every item of their spending. The French are some five years behind Britain and Sweden with such measures, but they hope to learn from others' mistakes. If they can, the new system could put an end to reckless French government spending that has led to a fivefold increase in the national debt...
...item at Whole Foods escapes design. The produce department appears art directed. Vegetable displays are torn down and put back up nightly. Strawberries are stacked airily in their baskets to resemble Chinese lanterns, a technique pilfered from Asian fruit markets. Over in prepared foods, cut fruit and portobello-mushroom kebabs are designed by a woman who travels from store to store training team members to do the same. "Shopping is 60% impulse, so the more the food is presented in a beautiful and exciting way, that all becomes part of the experience," Robb explains...
...minutes, bagging Pete Doherty, and touting her child in a Prada handbag. But most importantly, I look to her as inspiration for one of the hardest things that a woman can do in these troubled times: wear skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are probably the most ponderous and troublesome item in the modern woman’s closet. In theory, they seem chic, wearable and utterly surmountable. In actuality, they make one’s thighs look like they are hotbeds of elephantiasis. For the uninitiated, skinny jeans are pants that are tight all the way to the bottom. Sort...