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...dressers, bins and media consoles, all fashioned after high school lockers. Modular and multicolored, the collection offers a way to organize teenage rooms that now boast almost as many electronic gadgets as the family den. To allow self-expression, furniture designers are creating headboards and desktops that double as shadow boxes for showing off pictures, awards or drawings. Teens are "curating their space like it's their own museum," says DeeDee Gordon, co-founder of the trend-spotting firm Look-Look...
...time it ended, Britain, France and Germany had failed to agree on a timetable for handing over authority in Iraq. And France and Germany had stoked anger among smaller states by again thumbing their noses at E.U. rules designed to keep state spending in line. In the shadow of the Swedish euro vote, the prospects for coming referendums on the controversial new E.U. constitution - which at least six countries could put to the vote - seemed to darken. If a single country votes no, the new constitution is dead. As the E.U. pursues closer integration, its member states are lining...
...summer afternoon in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, hundreds of young Muslim students sleep in the shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need...
Work has kept her and her husband apart in recent months, so for the moment, Coppola plans to take a break. But she's keeping an eye out for her new film project. After living under the long shadow of her famous name, the dilettante is working hard to live...
...hundred thirty years ago, George Washington led the American people out of the shadow of totalitarianism—although some may not think of colonial life in those terms. His early activities did not take place far from Harvard Yard. I believe that the American people should support Chinese people as they attempt to step out of the shadow, and I hope students at Harvard today will play an important role in pushing China towards the democratic future that the Chinese people want and deserves...