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...years ago on the Chanel runway. How do you keep yourself in shape? Winston Churchill always said the best exercise is no exercise so let me put it this way; I do as much exercise as Churchill! And I never do Botox or plastic surgery either. I went to a beauty salon in July for a day and swore I would go back every day in September, but I haven't been back since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 51-Year-Old Model Inès de La Fressange | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Since the cease-fire, the tunnelmakers have become more brazen. They dig in plain sight of the Egyptian border watchtowers and Israeli surveillance aircraft, with a large bubble of tattered plastic over each entrance. Thousands of Gazans swarm around the pitted, sandy area because the tunnels are now the enclave's biggest source of employment. The men carry shovels, ropes and stacks of wooden slats used to reinforce the tunnels where cave-ins are nearly as big a danger as Israeli bombs. Others emerge from the plastic bubbles carting away goods destined for merchants throughout Gaza, who placed orders weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Truce Teeters, Gaza's Tunnelers Dig Undeterred | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

...just had a radio hit with 'I Want You Back' were opening the outdoor show. Bradley was backstage. The band was hanging out in its trailer before its brief set. Bradley smelled something odd. It seemed to be coming from a large metal fence, covered with a blue plastic tarp, which separated the bands from the performers. Then he realized desperate fans were using lighters to burn holes in the tarp so they could get a better look at Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, and the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Music Biz: Murder or Suicide? | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...step in this direction - as would be Amazon's MP3 store, MySpace Music, and the Radiohead model of giving away music online. But labels were still a long way from overcoming their outdated ideas. They clung stubbornly to long held beliefs that selling millions of pieces of plastic would return them to massive profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Music Biz: Murder or Suicide? | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...said 193 Rohingya were rescued by Acehnese fishermen on Jan. 7 and are now being housed at an Indonesian naval base. The refugees there claim Thai marines also cut them adrift after destroying the engines on their boats, and they managed to stay afloat by erecting sails made of plastic tarpaulin. Survivors from a second wave of refugees "pushed back" from Thailand - a contingent of some 580 - have also made their way to India's Andaman Islands. It is not known whether those who landed at Aceh were part of this same group. The front page of the Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

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