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...addition to the belt, Miuccia Prada laid down her gauntlet with a silhouette that was decidedly narrow and attenuated - even when it was very very short - amid the dominant trends in Milan of short full skirts, airy fabrics and a dusty pink color palette. The crowd at her show usually likes to be whacked over the head with some totally random new fashion idea. Last season her message was aggressive to the point of barbaric. This season was much subtler. Her short satin mini-tunics and matching Kelty-style backpacks worn with jewel-toned satin turbans evoked a kind...
...from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tiny nation (pop. 1.35 million) has managed to put itself on the edge of far more than just geography. It was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency...
...next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under a half-moon. I was in Iraq to profile the American soldier as "Person of the Year...
...that are economically large enough to resolve common problems while being numerically small enough to engage in candid discussion. Depending on the problem, the group will vary?for example, the first multilateral consultation brings together China, the Euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. to discuss how to narrow global trade imbalances...
...investigation and the voluntary action taken by Natural Selection Foods LLC help narrow concern about any continuing risk, and begins to ensure that product that may be potentially contaminated is removed completely from the food supply," Stenzel said in a statement...