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Americans spent more than $1 trillion on Visa credit, debit and prepaid cards in 2004, a 19% jump over the year before. Visa USA CEO Carl Pascarella sat down with TIME's Barbara Kiviat to talk about the continued march to plastic...
...much as it may seem that cosmetic surgery among young Americans is at an epidemic level, a poll of 600 female college students by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons shows that while a majority would consider it, only 5% have gone under the knife...
...Arnold and Anna Galloway Highsmith; the former seeks to communicate through her art the intimacy of Jane Austen’s novels, while Highsmith crafts her work as a record of her own creative process. The gallery director, tutor Amanda F. Jack (ajack@fas.harvard.edu) plans to next exhibit the distorted plastic-toy photography of Peter Smuts...
Pantano had the men's hands tied with plastic handcuffs. As he did so, he received word that a large arms cache had been found in the house the men had just left. Pantano ordered the Iraqis to comb their car for guns and explosives in case it was booby-trapped to blow. He had the men's handcuffs removed, and the two suspects started to pull off panels and seat covers...
...Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part of "Africa 05," the British Museum and other venues will present the continent's history, identity and culture through artifacts, dance...