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...above all, this midday fete is engineered to give the movie's star one final turn in the spotlight. By the time Winslet arrives, she has already participated in several hours of diligent self-exposure that day, illuminating for both Larry King and the women of The View the complexities of pretending to have sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in the bleak marital drama Revolutionary Road while the film's director, Sam Mendes - her husband - watched. (See TIME's Oscar Guide: Best Actress...
...copies. Unlike VG, however, the Guardian has bet its building that the future lies in so-called media integration - the same single staff for newsprint, Internet and the video and audio reportage that are increasingly turning Internet news into a multimedia circus. The Guardian's new headquarters in the King's Cross area of London - it moved in December - houses enough video studios and fancy hardware to allow the Guardian to compete not just with other newspaper sites, but with...
...picture of a genial Tom Cruise hangs above the door to the King beauty parlor in downtown Basra. For more than a decade, Sameer Abdalhadi has been snipping and shaving in the cramped salon with its display case of Dr. James Freckle and Acne Soap and Muscular Man perfume. On this February afternoon, he gives street vendor Mustafa Abdalsada a modish haircut and shaves his beard, leaving just a hint of designer stubble. Local men cultivate beards or luxuriant mustaches of the kind that make even despots look avuncular, but Abdalhadi encourages his clients to try something new. The barber...
...advanced civilization has a long history--it's one of those ideas that's just too romantic to die. As early as the 16th century, the conquistadores were pouring men into the emerald hell to find it. They called the city El Dorado, the Gilded One, because its king supposedly powdered himself with gold dust...
...Taser was launched in the mid-'70s and is now used by thousands of police departments and military agencies worldwide. But the device's efficacy has been hotly debated--not least amid the public outrage over its role in the 1991 Rodney King incident. Organizations like Amnesty International have strongly criticized the regularity with which law-enforcement officers use the stun guns, attributing hundreds of deaths to incorrect Taser...