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...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Santiago is one of South America's best-kept shopping secrets. With prices in their own countries skyrocketing because of inflation, well-heeled Argentines and Brazilians are flocking to the Chilean capital for their luxury purchases. Among the best buys - besides leather and wine - are gems like amethyst, malachite and lapis lazuli. Amethyst is locally prized for its supposed healing properties (it's common to find chunks of it lying in homes to counter bad luck). Malachite is used in popular fashion accessories, worn by Chilean women in bracelets and anklets...
WHETHER YOU LOVE THE '80s or hate the '80s, there's no denying that Billy Idol was the '80s. Of the myriad good-looking, platinum-haired, leather-clad guys who sang about sex, Idol had the sharpest jaw, the spikiest mane, the tightest pants and a dirty trinity of hits about masturbation (Dancing with Myself), virginity (White Wedding) and the age of consent (Cradle of Love). Depth was not his specialty, but as a snarling, seductive wild child--half Elvis, half Sid Vicious--he captured the ebullient superficiality of the age. When he faded from the scene...
...daughter was 5, and I didn't want their friends' parents to be frightened of me," says Idol. "So I thought, All right, I've got to knock all this on the head. Heh!" Idol, who still has the snarl and the spiky hair (the leather has given way to more breathable fabrics), barks a jolly "heh!" after almost every sentence he utters, even the ones in which he describes spending much of the '90s wondering how he had become uncool. "At first you think there's something wrong with you, but then you realize it's just the stupid...
...film by Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age) and distributed through Fox—I had considered what life with a child might look like one day: sacrificing Y Tu Mamá También for Daddy Day Care and midnight movies for early Saturday morning showings, risking my Italian leather mules to the indeterminate gummy red substances that seem to accompany children. After seeing the film, I was only more thankful for the invention of contraception...
...luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents (such as the Thai-inspired, brushed-aluminum sinks that seem to levitate above the bathroom counters) complement the textures of soft, natural fabrics and supple pebble-grain leather, while a spa and a golf simulator provide diversion on even the dreariest of North European days...