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...announced that the special session of the Security Council would be open - and therefore broadcast live around the world - and that Powell would deploy audio-visual aids to make his case. U.S. officials at the UN also hinted that next week's session could even render redundant the planned February 14 report-back by UN arms inspectors. The attendance of the special session by foreign ministers Dominique de Villepin of France and Joschka Fischer of Germany underscore the seriousness of the discussion...
...cork industry is fighting back with a p.r. campaign, but that won't stop vintners like New Zealand's Kim Crawford, whose bottles are all being switched to screw tops by next year. "There's nothing romantic about a corked bottle of wine," he says. Unfortunately, screw tops render obsolete the second snottiest aspect of wine: storing your bottles in a rack on their sides to keep the corks moist. --By Joel Stein
...comes from Afghanistan. I felt like I was holding a sliver of the fallen sky in my hand, and the fact that I'd robbed it from bin Laden added to its intensity. For thousands of years, painters have coveted lapis.Ground to powder and mixed with oils, it can render the perfect azure of the sea, the Virgin Mary's robes, or heaven. I wondered why bin Laden wanted all that lapis. Baubles for his four wives? I doubt he was trying to approximate the color of heaven; his experiments have all been in the crimson shades of hellfire...
Agatha is a “hoarder,” an individual who accumulates items assiduously, eventually amassing enough to render them practically immobile, according to Len Thomas, the director of Cambridge’s Multi-Service Center...
...Rico for reciting the text. Deciding that it would work well as a theater piece, Jarcho set to work. “I don’t consider the play to be a version of the story. It’s much more a response than an attempt to render it,” the playwright explains. The poem focuses on Bess, a beautiful girl who tries to save the life of her beloved highwayman by shooting herself, thereby warning him of an ambush. In Jarcho’s version, however, Bess is the center of what she describes...