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...took Web entrepreneur and photography geek Derek Powazek about 24 hours to figure out a use for the incredibly strange photos of Sydney that he was seeing on Flickr. The Australian city was being blanketed by a freak dust storm that was dumping 82 tons of fine red earth from thousands of miles away every hour. Awed Sydneysiders were posting images of eerie rust-colored landmarks and scarlet skylines by the hundreds. "I wanted to put those photos where they deserved to be," Powazek says. "In print...
...penned in. "There's no room for maneuver on tax cuts," says Professor Henrik Enderlein, from Berlin's Hertie School of Governance. "On the contrary, Merkel's new center-right government is likely to raise taxes, like VAT, in order to get Germany's public finances out of the red." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
They're supposed to be glittering showcases for the finest new movies from around the world, but film festivals get their juice from Hollywood's most venerable and precious commodity: stars. So on the red carpet at the 66th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica - better known as the Venice Film Festival - were Nicolas Cage, Matt Damon, Viggo Mortensen and, for a little old-fashioned glamour, Omar Sharif. Inside the Sala Grande, George Clooney introduced his new girlfriend, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis; and when the projector broke down at a screening of his film The Men Who Stare at Goats...
...Bagram air base will be able to challenge their indefinite detention before a military review board. The change comes after months of protests within the prison's walls over a string of reported abuses--including the 2002 deaths of two inmates at the hands of U.S. troops. The International Red Cross praised the policy change, although other human-rights advocates argued that the new guidelines do not go far enough. Detainees are currently not allowed to meet with lawyers or have access to the charges against them. Under the new rules, a military official will be assigned to examine...
...winning the World Series. "They had fans wishing, and praying, that this year, finally, they'd win. But of course, until 1969, they never did," Reynolds said yesterday. (Even Reynolds, however, seems to have given up on the Lions, having channeled his sports attention toward the more successful Red Wings...