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...women's fashion, even though it's not among the top sellers (it has a circulation of 120,000 and is written in Italian). The magazine has caught worldwide attention in the past not only for its eye for fashion trends, but for features on terrorism, drug abuse and plastic surgery. Sozzani says she has always aspired to reach beyond Italy, and was quick to react when her colleagues in the U.S. and U.K. were missing this black fashion moment. "I've always wanted to bring the Italian sensibility to the world," she said. "By now, the planet is small...
...wanted by the Iraqi government. But his story echoes those of many of Iraq's young fighters; it's one not of cold-blooded murderers but of avengers. "Al-Qaeda killed my brother. They kidnapped him from a street near his home in 2006. They wrapped his head in plastic until he suffocated to death," he says. "He was 23, and his wife was five months pregnant. Those people [who killed him] were his neighbors - his friends." (Abbas later caught and killed them...
...Surveillance cameras in the blue-collar district of Gungoren show two young men placing two white plastic bags into a garbage bin on a street corner. After the first bomb exploded with deafening reverb, people rushed to the scene; it was then that a second bomb - packed with nails, bits of metal and TNT - went off. The attack killed 17 people and injured...
...However persuasive his arguments, Joseph's task may be Canute-like. In June, China banned shops throughout the country from giving out free plastic bags and banned the production, sale and use of any plastic bags less than one-thousandth of an inch thick. Bhutan banned the bags on the grounds that they interfered with national happiness. Ireland has imposed a hefty 34-cent fee for each bag used. Both Uganda and Zanzibar have banned them, as have 30 villages in Alaska. Scores of countries have imposed or are considering similar measures...
...Joseph labors on nevertheless, undaunted by the tide or by what his Marin County neighbors must think. "I've told a lot of people that I'm trying to save the plastic bag," he says. "They look at me with horror." But he says that no, he has not seen a drop-off in dinner-party invitations. "This is not an issue that belongs in the left bucket or the right bucket. It's about truth. And I'm determined to make it register...