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Although McKibben does not skirt these questions, he argues along different lines. Regardless of the effects, he says, we have already changed the earth's atmosphere and continue to do so. What the result will be--good or ill-no one can tell. But the air today is undoubtedly different from 20 years ago, and will be different again 20 years from...
Karan, 41, has earned a reputation as the sartorial savior of the modern working woman who is fed up with floppy bow ties and sexless designs. Karan's clothes are comfortable and practical, stylish and feminine. Among her trademarks: one-piece silk bodysuits, easy-fitting jackets, wrap skirts. Fashion doyen John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily, lauds Karan as the most important American designer. Says he: "Donna understands a woman's body the way Coco Chanel did." A size 12 herself, Karan boasts the rare and eternally marketable talent of cutting a skirt or a pair of pants...
...computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt officials in collusion with traders continue to skirt the system...
...heard. To attract female guests, several hotel chains have introduced new features -- some quaint, some useless, but many very welcome. Crest Hotels now offers "Lady Crest" rooms. The redesigned suites are more softly decorated than regular executive rooms, and come equipped with hair dryers, makeup mirrors, women's magazines, skirt hangers, irons and ironing boards, and an expanded range of bathroom toiletries. Similarly, Ramada takes care to assign women to specially outfitted rooms in well-lighted areas, and will not put through telephone calls unless they are first accepted by the guest. Other hotel chains have substituted coded plastic cards...
...sources whispered that the Austrian-born Bloch was not only a Communist spy but also an Austrian lackey: as deputy chief of the American mission in Vienna, he had argued against barring Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from the U.S. A Viennese newspaper chimed in that Bloch was also a skirt chaser: police in Vienna interviewed a call girl with whom he had had a "friendship" for several years. In New York City Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now a Republican candidate for mayor, claimed he had so distrusted Bloch that he had him fired. Lauder backed...