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Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She's wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y. After rejecting a high-waisted, sequined pink skirt, she snaps up four G-Star narrow-cut cotton T shirts. "You gotta know your brands," she says, as she tosses the keepers into a metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Trend of Used Clothes | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...evening, some people were fighting back tears. They lined up to shake Fried's hand, grateful for the inspiration and a small pile of free condoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Caribbean Getaway Becomes an AIDS Hot Spot | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...were pressing on toward the summit. Breashears grabbed a telescope from his equipment tent, trained it on the peak and saw that the report was true. In his eyepiece was a flyspeck line of climbers inching up the last 1,000 ft. of Everest's five-mile rock pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Without Mercy | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...find a body on Everest," says Viesturs, "it's [accepted] practice to drop it in a crevasse or gather rocks to pile into a grave. With Rob and Scott, we couldn't do either, so we simply had to leave them as they were." The IMAX climbers did just that, finishing their filming and descending the mountain, all the while aware of what they were abandoning. If there was any consolation as they headed for home, it was that within a year the snows of Everest, in a final act of mercy, would provide the lost climbers with a proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Without Mercy | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

...floor and bark like a dog. Women pose naked before a camera, following the rude commands of Web cam masturbators. In a hospital for the aged, nurses perform perfunctory tasks for old droolers, whom Seidl photographs unpityingly. The humiliations - of the characters, the actors and the audience - pile up for 2 hrs 15 mins. Whatever it all means, the film plays like loser-sadists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mean Men and Mad Women | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

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