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This is what it takes to be a modern metrosexual: I'm lying on my side on a black leather lounger, dressed in a yukata robe that ends about mid-thigh, soothing New Age music on the stereo, a burning candle jammed in my ear. My skin care specialist explains that the hollow candle will create a gentle vacuum to draw out excess ear wax, impurities, maybe some loose change. I'm somewhat dubious-with a 20-cm candle sticking out the side of my head, I feel less like David Beckham than a human birthday cake-but this technique...
...Japan The Japanese had no need for diamonds. The engagement ring had no place in their historical notion of romance. No rings were ever exchanged. But in the mid-1960s, the De Beers cartel looked at Japan and saw potential. The J. Walter Thompson advertising agency was hired to flood the Japanese media with advertising touting the rings as a symbol of Western sexuality and prosperity. In 1966 less than 1% of Japanese women received a diamond ring when they married. By 1981 that figure had rocketed to 60%. And after another decade of sustained advertising, close...
...Suskind reports new details on Delta Force's shipment of a hatbox-sized container to Dulles Airport in Washington's Virginia suburbs in mid-2002. The round metal box, Army green with "US GOVERNMENT" emblazoned in yellow, purportedly contained the severed head of Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy. He supposedly had been killed in December 2001, and buried in an Afghan riverbed. With a $25 million bounty on his head, Afghan tribal chiefs provided the jawless head to the U.S. military. The skull, Suskind reports, still had a bit of skin attached to its crown when the container...
...That too was an option, of course. The Democrats might have been safer just staying away from an issue that is hurting Republicans plenty without their help. But the Democrats have decided they need to carve out a defensible position on Iraq going into mid-term elections this fall - which is why Reid of Nevada convened the meetings to begin with...
...down, was one matter. The overthrow of Saudi Arabia - the true nexus of oil and Allah, producer of 25% of the world's exported petroleum and, by some U.S. estimates, nearly all of the world's most far-reaching terrorism - was entirely another. At a 5 p.m. meeting in mid-May, the CIA's top management huddled. Tenet, that morning, had been grilled by Cheney about the status of the CIA's investigation of the reputed mubtakkar cell in the United States...