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McQueen's clothes were as profanely original as his language. Most famous for his bumster pants, which took low-rise jeans to a whole new low, he combined a gothic, almost romantic sensibility with a robust dose of street attitude. He was a master cutter, structuring garments to change the shape of the body, accentuating what he found sexiest. "There are very few real designers who have a craft, which is to say a sense of cut, proportion and tailoring," fellow British designer Paul Smith said in 2001. "Alexander...
Obama’s recent Nobel Prize, coupled with the Dalai Lama’s moral leadership, should propagate robust ways in which to address the deplorable situation in Tibet. While the presidential visit does not aim to snub China and bring complete autonomy to Tibet, it does have great potential to create a dialogue about human rights violations in the area. In the past year, Tibet has been a grand beneficiary of infrastructure programs from the Chinese government. While these efforts have helped bring homes to the region, Tibet still suffers numerous human-rights violations, ranging from...
...brief, if scary, dip and then proceeded to use its trillions in foreign reserves to undertake a massive spending program. More effective than similar stimulus packages in the United States and elsewhere, the approach by the Chinese government not only halted the swoon but propelled China to even more robust growth...
...online retailing giant, unscathed by the recession, is on a tear, posting robust earnings growth while many other retailers are licking their wounds. Analysts believe the company's profitable run isn't over yet, and say that concerns over competition in its trendy e-reader business are overblown...
...healthy and robust space program generates not just national esteem and extraordinary people but other developments as well, including the discovery of global warming, smoke detectors, and bar codes. And if one takes a long-term view of civilization, human expansion in our solar system is as inevitable as the journeys made across the Atlantic Ocean that ended in the New World. The solar system as a whole has land and resources equivalent to millions of Earths—to simply ignore it would be unimaginably shortsighted. The Moon alone, for instance, has enough fusion fuel to provide totally clean...