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...began with occasional 20-min. visits to the salon close to Duke's high school in Denver. But soon the low-intensity tanning bed wasn't cutting it anymore. So Duke switched to one with a more powerful sunlamp and started going to the salon more often. "First it was once every couple of weeks. Then once every week. And later it was every day," she says. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...less in common with modern gore movies than with certain avant-garde films of the late '60s, like Michael Snow's Wavelength - a murder mystery in the form of a single, slow, 45-min. zoom shot through a room - and Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame...
...Institution puts air-travel trends into perspective. The U.S. air-traffic system relies on 26 metropolitan hubs to ferry nearly 75% of domestic passengers. Twenty of these are also arrival points for 94% of international visitors. Funneling flights to these bottlenecks has driven the average flight delay to 57 min. in June 2009, up from 41 min. in 1990. The percentage of flights delayed at least two hours also soared over the past two decades, from...
...question is, Will he be invited back? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi used his first U.N. General Assembly appearance to deliver a rambling 100-min. tirade in which he dubbed the Security Council a "terror council," suggested Israel was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination, warned of a "fish flu" and plugged his website...
...recruit al-Qaeda had long sought: entirely legal, completely acculturated, seemingly innocuous. In his utter ordinariness, he was a terror master's dream. As such, Zazi suggests that the network of Osama bin Laden, weakened though it might be, can still project violence into the U.S. (Read "2-Min. Bio: Terrorism Suspect Najibullah Zazi...