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...roll, fall fashion runs the gamut, including high-neck taffeta dresses like the one opposite by Chanel (Bergdorf Goodman, 888-774-2424). Chanel brooch (Neiman Marcus, 888-888-4757) and Wolford Velvet de Luxe tights (Wolford, 800-965-3673). This page: Louis Vuitton Shetland-wool pocket top, fox-fur skirt, wool hat and Babouche pump louisvuitton.com) Model: Doutzen Kroes for L'Oréal Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Is Fashion Shaping Up? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Probable 2008 Dem presidential candidate Mark Warner holds a "virtual town hall" online. His advance team is clearly new at this: Warner's avatar, who flies onto the stage (a handy skill, considering Beltway traffic), is interrupted when--the Washington Post reports--"a large woman in a red skirt levitated out of her seat in the audience and hovered, weightless." Wow. Hillary will do anything for attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ana Log: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...European officials blame Asian shipping companies, which skirt quota rules by transferring tuna directly from industrial ranches in the Mediterranean to Japan-bound ships, without ever touching land and without reporting the size of their catch. "We cannot monitor it," says a European Commission official in Brussels. Tuna-ranching companies have become sensitive to environmental criticism. Spain's largest company, Ricardo Fuentes and Sons, declined to speak to Time, as did Azzopardi Fisheries in Malta, which controls some of the Mediterranean's richest breeding grounds. A.J.D. Tuna Limited, which Azzopardi owns with Japanese partners, says on its website that since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...possible, sewing. "Ladies, we need your waist measurement and skirt length," says Valerie Campbell, 67, who doubles as wardrobe mistress. She holds up one of the peasant costumes the chorus women will wear in the Aug. 24-27 performances: "We'll have a sewing bee and cut them out; then everyone will take theirs home and sew it up." The men, who are outnumbered three to one-"we should get a medal," jokes Ken Martin-are building a gondola. "It's hard work," says Campbell, "but it brings us all together." And "what else are you going to do?" says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing for Love | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

MEHEBA, Zambia—Jean Zawadi doesn’t look like a fighter at first glance. With her tightly twisted hair, colorful “chitenge” (skirt) and sorrowful eyes, Jean paints the picture of a powerless African refugee, rather than a crusader for justice. And because Jean is both of these things, she is now in serious danger.A few months ago, Jean’s fourteen-year-old daughter Dayaka was raped in Meheba Refugee Camp. She is now pregnant, out of school, and severely depressed. Her desperate mother has gone to the police, camp NGOs...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, | Title: The Power of Whining | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

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