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...Paper How postmodern can you be? For funky Dutch brand Moooi, Antwerp outfit Studio Job has mimicked the monumental forms of old-fashioned floor lamps, cupboards, dressers, dining tables and even chandeliers in paper and plywood. Is the Paper range flat-packing for the pretentious? Who cares? IKEA has never been this much fun. www.moooi.com...
...point in the history of a brand that not so long ago epitomized smart, affordable fashion. Named for "the gap in the market it hoped to fill," the Gap had something for everyone. You got your khakis there; your grandmother got her cardigans; Sharon Stone got her outfit for the Oscars. So what went wrong...
...resource-rich but lawless region is home to two other formidable armed groups. While Manila has struck a fragile cease-fire with the 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), the country's largest Muslim rebel army, it has vowed to eradicate Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda-linked outfit accused of a string of terrorist acts, including the 2004 bombing of a ferry near Manila that killed more than 100 people. January brought confirmation that Abu Sayyaf chief Khaddafy Janjalani, as well as many of his top lieutenants, had been killed during an ongoing military campaign aided...
...outfit's as-of-yet small number of offerings are lively. "Embrace the Suck" by Col. Austin Bay is a pocket guide to "milspeak" (military slang) in Iraq. "Everything Could Explode at Any Moment" consists of dispatches from the Lebanese-Israeli front by Michael Totten. And as for those more interested in the culinary wars, TNP offers "Best Recipes from the Jewish Blogosphere" by Judith Weiss...
Seated in a nondescript office in Hong Kong, 1,500 workers are turning the wheels of the global economy. Without leaving their desks, these merchandisers at Hong Kong--based trading outfit Li & Fung connect the far-flung dots of today's international manufacturing system. They make sure that Victoria's Secret gets its bras, American Eagle Outfitters its T shirts and Disney its stuffed Winnie the Poohs. One moment, workers in Hong Kong are haggling with fabricmakers for the best price of denim, and the next, they're ensuring that a shipment of teddy bears gets to U.S. stores...