Word: shoulders
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Happy days are here again: off-the-shoulder coats at Prada and flirty dresses with accentuated waists at Carolina Herrera, and those ever-so-ladylike accessories, gloves, have made a comeback. Sylvia, Mona Lisa Smile and A Different Loyalty will bring the '50s look to the screen beginning this fall. All this comes on the heels of Julianne Moore's double feature as a circle-skirted housewife in The Hours and Far from Heaven. So why the re-return? "I think there is a frequent return to lots of times, like '30s-inspired slip dresses that keep coming back," says...
...never came close to either a terrorist or a weapon). According to a criminal complaint filed in Newark federal court last week, Lakhani first came to the FBI's attention in 2001 when an informant posing as the representative of a Somali terrorist group asked about getting a shoulder-fired missile. Lakhani's response: "It can be done." In July, after the FBI had wired $86,500 to Lakhani's alleged suppliers, he met in Moscow with two Russians who inserted themselves into the negotiations and, unbeknownst to him, were agents. The Russians showed Lakhani a replica of an Igla...
...Shoulder-fired missiles are available all over the world, but at the moment the Middle East is a virtual Wal-Mart. By most estimates, Saddam Hussein had a hidden collection of more than 1,000 shoulder-fired missiles before the war, and, says Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the coalition ground forces in Iraq, "there's by no means any sense of comfort on my part that we have identified and secured everything that was out there." The Pentagon is so concerned that it is offering $500 for every shoulder-fired missile Iraqis turn over to authorities...
...White House is operating under the assumption that it is only a matter of time before one of those shoulder-fired missiles emerges as a domestic threat. June's homeland-security appropriations bill included $60 million to study whether the antimissile technology currently used on military planes can be adapted for commercial use. Meanwhile, the Senate Commerce Committee is debating the commercial airline missile-defense act, which proposes equipping all commercial aircraft in the U.S. fleet (nearly 7,000 planes in all) with antimissile technology at a cost experts place, rather unexpertly, between $10 billion and $100 billion...
...Austria border in 1991, after some 5,300 years on ice, most experts thought the prehistoric hunter who came to be known as Otzi the Iceman had simply died of exposure. Then came the news two years ago that foul play was involved: an arrowhead embedded deep in his shoulder proved he had been shot from behind...