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...Helen Lee, 32, who co-founded Shanghai label insh in 2006, is in the vanguard. Her designs mix ancient and modern symbols in a way that is "communicating a culture," she explains. It is faintly ironic that one of Lee's best-selling shirts, which reads I LOVE SHANGHAI, simply appropriates the 1977 Milton Glaser logo for New York State. But none of this is about a dislike of America, per se. Just the desire to replace America's icons with Asia...
...ancient Greeks, whose Olympiads can be traced back to 776 B.C., didn't give out medals but rather bestowed olive wreaths upon their victors. The medal tradition began with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, where winners got silver, seconds got bronze and third place got zip. In the intervening 112 years, the coveted awards have been rectangular, ridged, doughnut-like, gilded and--for the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games--shaped like an amorphous blob. At the 1900 Paris Games, some events forwent medals in favor of prizes: one pole-vault runner-up won an umbrella...
...core scientists in the Arctic are training their eyes directly downward. It's an incredibly important job. It's also, as the participants in the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project will attest, incredibly fun. Where else can you snowmobile all day across Olympic-quality piste, make modern art out of 200-year-old ice crystals and relax at "night" (the sun never sets during the arctic summer) with copious amounts of Carlsberg beer delivered by the U.S. Air Force? Oh, and in your downtime, you can extract ancient cores of ice that contain atmosphere from tens of thousands...
...hours but up to a whopping 24. Almost 10% of the market is now devoted to the strongest antiperspirants available without a prescription. Which makes you wonder: Do we sweat that much? And if we do, is it such a bad thing? "We have created a sense in modern society about hygiene that goes beyond being human," says Mehmet Oz, Oprah's doctor in residence, who doesn't use an antiperspirant because of the chemicals in it. "We all smell, and we all sweat. We're supposed...
...politics of Pakistan is an issue for the Pakistani people to decide. Our expectation is that any action will be consistent with the rule of law and the Pakistani constitution. It is the responsibility of Pakistan's leaders to decide on a way forward to succeed as a moderate, modern, and democratic country...