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...he’s a pretty handsome dude, and he looks like he could party...for my outfit, I’d go to the Garment District; you can put together an outfit there that looks like [it came through] a time machine...I’d wear powder-blue Pumas, the Samuel L. Jackson suit from Pulp Fiction...and a blue tie to match the shoes...
...Food Fright BRITAIN A U.K. food scare involving the banned dye Sudan 1 - shown to be carcinogenic in rats - spread to 15 other, mostly European, countries. Britain issued an alert on Feb. 18 when Premier Foods reported that it found traces of Sudan 1 in a batch of chili powder in its Worcester Sauce. The alert led to the recall of more than 400 products. The other countries affected are importers of foodstuffs from Britain. Tarnished Temple GREECE Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid a corruption scandal...
Forty-five Girl Scouts in Rochester, Minn., spent last Thursday evening solving a crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another...
...Maoist past, as well as the effects of rampant development on the country's culture and landscape. An astonishing diversity of work is on display, from Cui Xiuwen's video Ladies Room?which looks at the social dynamics of the new China from the perspective of a nightclub powder room?to Huang Yan's beguiling Chinese Landscape-Tattoo, pictured here...
Sitting forward on a powder blue chair in his ornate living room, Mohammed al Ammari makes his campaign pitch to a dozen men all clad in the traditional Saudi robe and headdress. As a member of Riyadh's city council, he vows, he would work to rebuild the capital's crumbling downtown into a modern urban hub. The setting and promise may lack pizzazz, but al Ammari jabs a forefinger into the air as he speaks, visibly thrilled to be a candidate in the Kingdom's first-ever nationwide election. Two days later, he is beaming after casting his ballot...