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...dashing, torqued configuration by Zaha Hadid, the London-based architect who was this year's winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. On the right is Japanese architect Arata Isozaki's furrowed wafer of glass and steel, buttressed by diagonal struts that seem almost too slender for their supporting role. And between them is Libeskind's contribution, a supreme bit of architectural legerdemain. It's a curving tower doing what should be, for a building, the impossible. Doing it very suavely too. It's taking...
Cell phone looking worn out? Camera not as slender as it once seemed? No worries. This year's best gadgets can meet your every need, from photo prints that don't smudge to MP3-player cases that let you listen to music underwater. How about home-theater systems that automatically adjust the sound of their speakers? Or a camcorder that doesn't use tapes or DVDs? Out with the old and in with the new has never been so exciting. Over the next 10 pages, TIME showcases some of the coolest products on the market. Will technological wonders never cease...
...1740s several blocks were being used for a single picture, and luxurious calendars featuring polychrome prints became popular as New Year's gifts among smart Edo residents. King of the calendar prints was Suzuki Harunobu, whose Beauty Taking the Air by a River (1765-66), of a slender young woman in a subtle rose kimono, is one of the best among his dozens in the show...
Shishmaref is melting into the ocean. Over the past 30 years, the Inupiaq Eskimo village, perched on a slender barrier island 625 miles north of Anchorage, has lost 100 ft. to 300 ft. of coastline--half of it since 1997. As Alaska's climate warms, the permafrost beneath the beaches is thawing and the sea ice is thinning, leaving its 600 residents increasingly vulnerable to violent storms. One house has collapsed, and 18 others had to be moved to higher ground, along with the town's bulk-fuel tanks...
...onetime Gucci design director Alessandra Facchinetti, would fill her former boss's big shoes. As it happens, Facchinetti had also been bitten by the travel bug, offering Indian-inspired sari dresses and fringe-embroidered skirts. She didn't rock the boat, choosing instead to stick to Ford's sexy, slender Gucci image in a solid debut. "It's time for Gucci to be feminine. It should not always be so hard," Facchinetti said, beaming backstage after her debut. Her bosses seemed genuinely pleased. "This is a very exciting moment, but it is a big change and that is not always...