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Lewis Morley calls it "one of those boomerang photographs," as it's a picture that keeps bouncing back. And certainly Morley's silver-gelatin image of Swinging London call girl Christine Keeler?her notorious nudity concealed by shadow and a strategically placed chair?is a photographic icon that has cut through the vicissitudes of fashion. But the rest of Morley's 50-year career hasn't been so unapologetic, and it seems every few years the Hong Kong-born, English-trained and (for the past 35 years) Australian-based photographer is discovered anew. There have been retrospectives in London...
...them in advance when buying their ticket. According to Ryanair's website, that fee is set to increase by 40% in September to $13.20 per bag, so the company will benefit handsomely from the new, tougher checked baggage rules. For O'Leary, it seems, every airport crowd has a silver lining...
...Marley Goes Gold Reggae great honored a little late Nothing says "Happy belated birthday" like ... coins? The Bank of Jamaica is minting a gold-and-silver piece to honor Bob Marley's 60th--six months after what would have been his 61st...
...cartridges, which carry higher profit margins than consumer-electronics goods. Companies also hope to persuade mobile-phone-camera users to print out their shots. "For the entry level, the mobile is taking more and more of the digital-camera market," says Kodak's Cohen Szulc. There is some silver lining for the industry. Vendors are looking to emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. And even in the mature Japanese, European and U.S. markets, a lot of people still do not have digital cameras. IDC analyst Paul Withington in London says that household penetration levels are far from...
...Called, oddly enough, Crystal Caves, it holds some 600 crystals and fossils, many of which the Dutch-born 69-year-old gathered on expeditions to Mexico and Brazil. His obsession has brought its share of trouble. He's had life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...